Comments with () BUG

[clewon]

Just share my experience and want eSignal to fix this.

It spent me 10 hours to discover that

if a comment line contains (), as in:

// This will be done in main() routine.

Then the function parameters defined in preMain will not be displayed. Only when I removed the open and close brackets, did the parameters appear again in the Edit Studies dialog.

[ACM]

Re: Comments with () BUG

clewon
FWIW this is documented by eSignal in section 3.1.5 of the Beginner Tutorial 3: Introduction to preMain() and main()
Alex

Originally posted by clewon
Just share my experience and want eSignal to fix this.

It spent me 10 hours to discover that

if a comment line contains (), as in:

// This will be done in main() routine.

Then the function parameters defined in preMain will not be displayed. Only when I removed the open and close brackets, did the parameters appear again in the Edit Studies dialog.

[SteveH]

But the bigger question here is:

Why is eSignal code poking around in a comment section looking for main(...) in the first place? If they're doing it because they use commented areas to embed metadata then they did a very poor job of differentiating their intended main() lookup from a user-entered one as an ordinary documentation note.

Just because eSignal documented this hack and says "don't do that" doesn't make it right. Some developer made a very poor implementation decision.