<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style="font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div>Actually, in Pascal (* and *) came before { }. But this is quite off topic for this thread, so let's leave it.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Doug C.</div><div><br></div><div class="zmail_extra_hr" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; line-height: 0px;"><br></div><div class="zmail_extra" data-zbluepencil-ignore="true"><div><br></div><div id="Zm-_Id_-Sgn1">---- On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 10:41:31 -0400 <b>Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org></b> wrote ---<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin: 0px;" id="blockquote_zmail"><div><div class="x_1891174280gmail_quote"><div class="x_1891174280gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Jul 28, 2025 at 8:24:38 AM, Brian via fpc-pascal <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org">fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex" class="x_1891174280gmail_quote"><div>The two ways to do comments are, IMO, almost essential. The way I was<br>taught to write Pascal, about 45 years ago now, was to use braces for<br>comments - but then if you needed to comment out a whole chunk of<br>code, including multiple comments, you used (* and *) to do it.<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div dir="ltr">I think this is historical baggage from {} not being able to nest within each other. There’s no technical reason why {} can’t nest but instead of changing that a new comment was introduced. Seems redundant to me now looking back.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br><div><div class="x_1891174280gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Regards,<br></div> Ryan Joseph</div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div></div><br></body></html>