Positional cues or not

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk mk167280@students.mimuw.edu.pl
Tue, 13 Feb 2001 13:33:18 +0100 (CET)


On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 malcolm-hs@cs.york.ac.uk wrote:

> I don't see much difficulty in allowing both before and after
> positions, leaving it to the tools to re-format appropriately.
> Why introduce a restriction?

Because it's not clear to which entity the comment refers.
Do we want simething like this?:

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    type Entity1 = Foo

    --- Comment for Entity2
    type Entity2 = Bar
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    type Entity1 = Foo
    --- Comment for Entity1

    type Entity2 = Bar
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    type Entity1 = Foo
    --- Ambiguous comment
    type Entity2 = Bar
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    type Entity1 = Foo

    --- Ambiguous comment

    type Entity2 = Bar
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Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk