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From: wapd@houxj.UUCP (Bill Dietrich)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Forced Commenting
Message-ID: <319@houxj.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Jan-84 11:03:20 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  4 11:03:20 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 5-Jan-84 01:03:35 EST
Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ
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Out of pure curiosity :

	Does anyone know of a language (or compiler, interpreter
or assembler) that REQUIRES comments ?  To force "good" documentation,
sort of ?

	For example, one might want to require a block comment at
the beginning of each function.  Or force a comment on every line
of assembly language programs (especially useful for an assembly
language course).

	Another twist is to require a comment on every line that is
complex, by some measure (numbers of characters, number of operators,
bizarre instructions, data in text section, etc).

				Bill Dietrich
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