<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><div>On 8 Feb 2015, at 13:43, Kim Bruce <<a href="mailto:kim@cs.pomona.edu">kim@cs.pomona.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>This is part of the difficulty of restricting comments — and why it may be easier to only restrict “special” comments that will be extracted by tools.</div></blockquote><br></div><div>Th point of saying where all comments attach is that <i>all</i> code is subject to manipulation by tools — certainly by refactoring tools and formatting tools. </div><div><br></div><div>Having more than one kind of comments just additional complexity without benefit — what Michael Kölling warned as against.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Adnrew</div><div><br></div></body></html>