Single character comment syntax?

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Single character comment syntax? #5

Closed osa1 closed 2 months ago

osa1 commented 2 months ago

I like how -- looks, but a single character like # (as in Python) or ; (as in Scheme and other Lisps) would be more concise.

osa1 commented 2 months ago

I "asked around" (i.e. asked to chat bot) and then verified myself, apparently # is the most common single-line comment syntax. Some of the languages that use single #: (ignoring shells)

Python
Ruby
Perl
Awk
Tcl
Elixir
Nim
Roc

Languages that use %:

Prologs
Erlang

I think we have a winner?

osa1 commented 2 months ago

We've switched to # a while ago.