[802] in java-interest
Re: /** method must be there, or type expected error
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tientien Li)
Thu Jul 20 12:48:14 1995
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 08:22:54 -0700
From: li@deming.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Tientien Li)
To: larrys@zk3.dec.com
Cc: java-interest@java.sun.com
>
> /********************************************************
> * Given the prevalence of this commenting convention *
> * in C and C++ code, this may have been a really, *
> * really poor choice, and it might be a really good *
> * idea to fix it while this is still a relatively *
> * small search-and-replace problem in java source. *
> ********************************************************/
>
> Would it not be reasonable to have a general compiler pragma
> facility handle this problem?
Larry,
On the language design issues, I don't normally take sides because
I think language design is more art than science. However, on this
one, I can agree with you that it's probably more appropriate for
tools like "javadoc" to pick out and process tags such as "/**" than
"javac".
--
Tientien Li
li@deming.jpl.nasa.gov
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