[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] #;<datum> comments useless

[Abdulaziz Ghuloum]

On Sep 30, 2006, at 2:56 AM, Per Bothner wrote:

> This is a good example.  But there is still the question if this is the
> debugging or production version of the code.  If the latter, you still
> want a real comment explaining why the code is commented out.  If the
> code is only commented out during development/debugging, there is the
> problem that supporting #; may encourage questionable style (to the
> extent people agree it is questionable style for production code).
> Plus my argument that #; makes it easier to amke mistakes when
> commenting out code.

Per,

You may feel very strongly against using hash-semi style comments in
production code.  Others have described some actual real-life situations
in which they found legitimate uses of expression comments. Are you
seriously suggesting that they should be denied using a handy and useful
facility just because *you* consider it bad style in production code?

I personally feel very strongly against writing poorly-indented code.
I cannot stand reading poorly-indented code; especially in production
code.  I also feel that tabs are evil.  Should I submit a formal comment
about it?  Do style and coding conventions belong to any language
standard? (I don't think so.)

Aziz,,,