Timeline for answer to Asterisks in Multi-line comments by user52871
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| Sep 18, 2024 at 14:46 | comment | added | Kalnode | "...adds an extra * to each line to ensure readability of the comment when there is no syntax highlighting." --- I wish this idea was mentioned more in various doc systems in the wild. I'm like "Why all these characters?". This makes a lot more sense now. | |
| Sep 11, 2014 at 18:34 | vote | accept | kettlecrab | ||
| Mar 21, 2014 at 10:40 | comment | added | Robbie Dee | @MathewFoscarini Superb! +1 | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 19:17 | comment | added | user52871 | @RobbieDee How about now. I added more to the answer at the bottom. | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 19:17 | history | edited | user52871 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 19, 2014 at 19:09 | comment | added | Robbie Dee | We're now into semantics somewhat but for me the 2nd question is a follow on in the absence of an answer to the 1st (perhaps the OP would be able to clarify if this is really the case). We do get these questions on occasion e.g. I'm getting a division by zero exception - do other languages have this or is there a better way to handle this in my code. The most complete answer (for me anyway) is to address both parts. It isn't a bad question and this isn't a bad answer. Just making comment and YMMV of course... | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 18:23 | comment | added | Brian | @RobbieDee: The OP asked two questions, the 2nd being, whether "there was a specific reason for this template." Mathew picked one to answer (and, IMO, he picked the more interesting one). If this kind of thing bothers you, vote to close the question as too broad; this is the price we pay when an asker tries to stick more than one question into a post. Conveniently, dgvid's answer answers both questions, though more tersely. | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 16:37 | comment | added | Robbie Dee | The I was just curious if this was the case in programming languages other than C# part of the question isn't addressed at all and the other half is a little speculative in the absence of authoritative sources. The majority of the answer reads as a history of coding comments which whilst interesting, isn't really relevant IMHO. Nice though. | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 15:36 | comment | added | BPugh | I believe he does answer it in the last 2 paragraphs. He gives the specific reason. The rest of the answer covers languages other than C#, like C and also gives great background (or really good legend). Now, does VS do it for other languages that it may support? He didn't say, but it doesn't matter either. | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 15:30 | comment | added | user52871 | @RobbieDee not sure how I understand. What did I miss? | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 15:14 | comment | added | Robbie Dee | Some good stuff here, but as with many other answers we've had on this question before, it doesn't answer the question... | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 14:40 | history | answered | user52871 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |