I need some clarification on the use of "comments" markers in code. As I understand it (quote marks for "clarity") "//" will treat the rest of the line as a comment. "/* blah-blah */" treats everything enclosed as comment, or, ignores everything so enclosed. In openscad items I have obtained, partly for training purposes to learn by observation so to speak, by commenting out sections of code to observe effects (and attempt to customize). I some there are sections of code like this: "// */ bunch o'code // */" (not necessarily on one line). Not sure what to make of that. Could it just be an authors idiosyncrasy? If acceptable, I can post a screen clip of the code section to help clarify.

On 02.04.22 19:07, joe a wrote: > "// */ bunch o'code // */" (not necessarily on one line). Partially guessing without seeing the actual code... If it's on one line, it's a comment due to the beginning // If it's on multiple lines, it can be used to "comment out the comment markers" // /* a number of code lines // */ Would be enabled with the // present, but disabled due to the multi-line comment when // is removed. It seems to be an unnecessary complicated way of doing things, but maybe some sort of "works-in-other-languages" case. ciao, Torsten.

On 4/2/2022 1:15 PM, Torsten Paul wrote: > On 02.04.22 19:07, joe a wrote: >> "// */ bunch o'code // */" (not necessarily on one line). > > Partially guessing without seeing the actual code... > > If it's on one line, it's a comment due to the beginning // > > If it's on multiple lines, it can be used to "comment out the > comment markers" > > // /* > a number > of code > lines > // */ > > Would be enabled with the // present, but disabled due to > the multi-line comment when // is removed. > > It seems to be an unnecessary complicated way of doing things, > but maybe some sort of "works-in-other-languages" case. > > ciao, >   Torsten. > _______________________________________________ > OpenSCAD mailing list > To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org That's kinda what I thought at first. But then I noticed that the the "start" is like this "// */" rather than like this "// /*" (asterisk location different). Trying to "uncomment" those sections leads to "syntax errors" that do not yield to my efforts to discover them. I've dropped a message to the author on thingiverse.com. Maybe that will provide me a clue.