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if I am not mistaken a comment area in scripts can begin not only with but also and even

But on the other hand this version of comments has to end with because using even as little as 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

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.

gregster wrote: ↑

14 Jun 2022, 09:23

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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

/* 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 but by your logic, 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.)