Re: Turtle feature request : multi-line comments

On Feb 7, 2012, at 15:17 , Andy Seaborne wrote:

> The obvious issue to me is SPARQL alignment
> 
> SPARQL does not have /* ... */ comments.
> 
> It did at one time - the feature was removed long time ago - DAWG then thought one style of comment was better than two styles.
> 
> 
> I mildly prefer long comment blocks to look like comments all the way down so that commented out triples are clearly commented out.  A large block, that includes triples, can get confusing in that respect.  See the common pattern:
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> /*
> * Text
> */
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> On 07/02/12 13:41, Ivan Herman wrote:
>> The obvious issue is that this will break older turtle processors. That being said, we already have a backward incompatible feature, ie, @base...
> 
> ?? @base is in the submission - what's changed?

What I meant was: not many turtle processors out in the wild understand @base yet. 

Ivan


> 
> 8. is a break though.
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> 	Andy
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>> Ivan
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>> On Feb 7, 2012, at 14:12 , William Waites wrote:
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>>> 
>>>>> 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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