[Lazarus] "show declaration hints" has more power in it than is really used

[Doug Chamberlin]

On 7/24/2010 12:34 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> I wonder if I could ask a question that follows on from Bernd's 
> sentiment. He points out that the IDE will pick up a comment /before/ 
> a declaration, but for getting on for 30 years I've been putting 
> comments immediately /after/ and that includes the positioning of a 
> unit summary. What's more I've been writing comments where every line 
> is terminated ("Sloane style") rather than having a brace at the start 
> of each comment and one at the end, and I still favour (* *) because 
> of years spent using Modula-2.

I'm in the same boat (35+ years). Comments are always immediately after 
instead of before. Among other things this helps ensure the comment is 
not lost when the code is moved since it is located *within* the 
unit/procedure/function. I sure hope any further automated support will 
be able to handle this style.

-- 
Doug C.
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