Re: Turtle feature request : multi-line comments

The obvious issue is that this will break older turtle processors. That being said, we already have a backward incompatible feature, ie, @base...

Ivan

On Feb 7, 2012, at 14:12 , William Waites wrote:

> 
>>> One use case for multi-line (block) comments is mixing text and
>>> data notes in the same document and being easily able to
>>> separate out the two later (see earlier posts in this
>>> thread). When quickly jotting notes the # is inconvenient/ugly
>>> and block comments make convenient chunks for extraction.
> 
> I could see this being very useful for vocabulary authors, with
> comment and data/code conventions to make good quality documentation
> for humans. Considered at the surface syntax level, we can still have
> the author's intended ordering and such to make the resulting docs
> more readable.
> 
> +1 to block comments.
> 
> -w


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