Comments in scripts in form sections should be allowed to end with multiple * signs

[A Keymaker]

if I am not mistaken a comment area in scripts can begin not only with

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/*

but also

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/**

and even

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/********************************************************************************

But on the other hand this version of comments has to end with

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*/

because using even as little as

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**/

is not viewed as a end-comment-section marker - thus the comment section continues until it reaches either a marker for star-comment-section or end of the script


This is inconsistent behavior and in my opinion allowing for multiple * signs before / sign would allow users to mark sections of their codes in a more graphical and at the same time unified way

[gregster]

It's consistent in a way that both, /* and */, have to be at a line start, in AHK v1.
Afaik, */ is already allowed at the line end in AHK v2.
I wouldn't expect a change of the v1 behaviour (and it could break code), but if you wanted to suggest it, the Editors subforum wouldn't be the right place, since it's a language feature, and editors have no influence on it. The Wish List subforum would be more appropriate, imo.

[A Keymaker]

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if you wanted to suggest it, the Editors subforum wouldn't be the right place
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I just did: viewtopic.php?f=13&t=105390

Thank you for the info

[lexikos]

/* is the marker to start a comment. The rest of the line is just a part of the comment. I can start a comment like

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/*THIS IS MY COMMENT
This is also my comment

but by your logic,

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THIS IS MY COMMENT*/

should also be allowed to end the comment.

And it is. In v2.

(Again, */ is the end marker for the comment. Any asterisks preceding it are just meaningless characters.)