Comment as a first-class block?

endlessimagination

Right now comments feel like an afterthought, get stuck to the side, and don't always move with their code blocks when “Clean up Blocks” is used. Wouldn't it be nice for comments to be a first class block that can go into the code itself, just that it does nothing? This is how it is for real programming languages too, and will encourage the habit of writing comments, making the codes much more readable. WDYT?

Last edited by endlessimagination (Aug. 14, 2021 13:08:14)

KangaCoder

Comments, as notes in projects?

If they were to go into the blocks, wouldn’t that defeat the whole purpose of having them explain what the blocks do?

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mybearworld

Something like this?

[section v] v {
move (10) steps
turn cw (25) degrees
}::grey

If so, someone already had that idea.
Do you mean something like this?

comment [hello world]::grey
repeat (10)
move (10) steps
end

If so, that's rejected. If not, please elaborate.

Last edited by mybearworld (Aug. 14, 2021 14:49:09)

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endlessimagination

EDIT: Sorry mybearworld, you replied while i was composing this, this reply is my reply to wangat

I think you misunderstood me. Right now comments look like this

It's next to the code, it's not part of the code. And more annoyingly, it doesn't always move with the code. I'm suggesting doing something like this, but with nicer wrapping and such so long comments don't look awful.

COMMENT: Scratch has no explicit layer control other than relative movement between layers...
set [LAYER] to [0]
repeat [20]
  broadcast [layer] and wait
  change [LAYER] by [1]

Last edited by endlessimagination (Aug. 14, 2021 15:07:48)

PenguinLover1123

Easy workaround:

define comment [comment]
//Put nothing in the define



comment [Your comment here]//Then use this

Good morning/afternoon/night

endlessimagination

Hah thanks, you all are fast :-). Glad to know these have been suggested before, but sad that it was rejected. I think making it a block would encourage its use much more. Writing good comments is an important software engineering skill so it shouldn't be stashed into a hard-to-find right-click popup menu, and instead should be front and center. I guess this has been debated before so i won't push this further. Thanks all for the discussion!

ScolderCreations

It appears this is rejected, as someone else has stated. Edit: ninjaed by the op :'(

Last edited by ScolderCreations (Aug. 14, 2021 15:04:10)

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mybearworld

Totodile_star wrote:
This actually used to exist

It was removed for a reason.

Signatures are the only place where assets links still work.

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endlessimagination wrote:
EDIT: Sorry mybearworld, you replied while i was composing this, this reply is my reply to wangat

you can use the “quote” button to reply to someone easier. when you do that, though, make sure you delete parts that you don't need to reply to.

@mythoslore was so much more obvious than @spookily

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