Top "Comments" questions

A comment is a programming language construct used to embed non-compiled, programmer-readable annotations in the source code of a computer program.

Does HTML5 change the standard for HTML commenting?

Recently I found that there is, possibly, a new way of commenting in HTML5. Instead of the typical <!-- …

html comments
Inline comments for ConfigParser

I have stuff like this in an .ini file [General] verbosity = 3 ; inline comment [Valid Area Codes] ; Input records will be …

python comments ini configparser
How to make IntelliJ know FIXME?

In IntelliJ 12, the FIXME comment is regarded as a normal comment with typo. How to make known by IntelliJ IDEA …

intellij-idea comments todo
Python NOOP replacement

Often I need to temporary comment some code, but there are situations like the following where commenting a single line …

python python-2.7 comments noop
Is it possible to obtain class summary at runtime?

Is it possible to obtain class summary at runtime in C#? I would like to obtain class summary through reflection …

c# reflection class comments summary
telling uglify to keep certain comments (using CodeKit)

I'm using CodeKit to develop a WordPress theme. Of course I'd like to compress the LESS when it's compiled into …

compilation comments save less preserve
Why are multi-line comments in flex/bison so evasive?

I'm trying to parse C-style multi-line comments in my flex (.l) file: %s ML_COMMENT %% ... <INITIAL>"/*" BEGIN(ML_…

c comments bison multiline flex-lexer
Reflowing comment blocks with vim

I'm cleaning up someone else's code and working with vim. I'd like to reflow the comments so that they're formatted …

vim editor comments reflow
Filter Comment Spam? PHP

I'm looking for articles on ways to filter spam. When I search around all I keep finding is Wordpress, ways …

php comments filtering spam-prevention
PHPDoc for variable-length arrays of arguments

Is there a syntax for documenting functions which take a single configuration array, rather than individual parameters? I'm thinking specifically …

php codeigniter comments phpdoc