<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Yeah, I use them for stuff like that a lot, or if my comments are more, um, “paragraphical" in nature (I can be somewhat long-winded at times).<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 11, 2016, at 1:29 PM, Jordan Rose <<a href="mailto:jordan_rose@apple.com" class="">jordan_rose@apple.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">I can't agree that /*…*/ comments are useless. The <i class="">examples in the proposal</i> aren't things I would write, but I can certainly think of other places I use them.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class="">if foo > 0 {</div><div class="">} else if foo < 0 {</div><div class="">} else /* foo == 0 */ {</div><div class="">}</div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class="">// We can't use SpecificType here because of XXX.</div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class="">let foo: protocol<OtherType/*, SpecificType*/> = bar()</div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">…and then <i class="">given</i> that we have /**/ comments in the language, we should define their behavior even in places you and I personally don't intend to write them.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Jordan</div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>- Dave Sweeris</div></body></html>