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Subject: Re: Multiline statement in iocsh
From: "Konrad, Martin via Tech-talk" <[email protected]>
To: Saeed Haghtalab <[email protected]>, Ralph Lange <[email protected]>, EPICS Tech Talk <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 15:40:55 +0000
Hi,
On 1/15/20 10:31 AM, Saeed Haghtalab via Tech-talk wrote:
> That’s right. I’ve put the comments in each line deliberately because
> I think since startup script mostly contains the commands and 
> configuration (and not code) with many arguments and macro
> substitution, I think it makes sense to support inline comment in
> multiline statement in this case which helps in readability a lot.
In my experience comments tend to be wrong after a while. To me it
sounds like we actually want support for named arguments [1].

-Martin

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named_parameter

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