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From: Hugh Hood <hughhood@earthlink.net>
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Michael,

Thank you. Your comment about DO/FIN made me realize the answer to my 
request for easy block comments in Merlin32 was always right in front of me.

***********
CmntST      MAC          ; comment block start
             DO     #0
             <<<

CmntEND     MAC          ; comment block end
             FIN
             <<<
***********

             CmntST

Code        LDA    #1

End
             CmntEND

***********

As we know, most modern editors can be customized to 'dim/gray' 
everything between the 'CmntST' and 'CmntEND', so the editor part should 
be fine. I also suppose the macro names could be 'C*/' and 'C/*' to make 
them more 'C' like.

Somewhat related to Andy's comment in regard to line numbers in the C 
pre-processor option, the Merlin32 assembly listing won't assign line 
numbers to the commented out part. I don't know if that is all that 
important, however. It _could_ be.




Hugh Hood


On 6/3/2019 9:53 AM, Michael Pohoreski wrote:
>> For example, I would really like a 'block comment' pseudo opcode (or
>> other delimiter) that mimics the effect of the '/* */' in 'C'.
> 
> I'll second this!  A block comment would be a REALLY nice QoL (Quality of Life) feature.
> 
> Part of the problem is that DO/ELSE/FIN is *still* parsing the conditional part even when it shouldn't be. :-/
> This makes it impossible to leave comments, comment out broken code, etc.
> 
>          ORG $300
> 
>      DO 0
>          RNG     ; Throws an error. Why isn't this ignored?
>      ELSE
>          RTS
>      FIN
>