comment blocks (wish list?)

[xra7en]

Now that is interesting, to this day, even in BATCH file - which I write a lot as well, I never use REM. It feels klunky and messy.
Now with that said (and since the topic is brought up), how hard would it be to add block comments

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1. /*
2.  * this is  a block
3.  *
4.  */
5.  

or

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1. /*
2.  
3. this is a block too
4.  */

is it possible to do with  " ' "?

maybe

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1. '*
2. block of comments
3. *'
4.  

sometimes I want to write a lot of comments and each line of ', gets redundant

If it already exists, please correct and show me the way !!

[SMcNeill]

One simple way is to use the precompiler to make a segment comments.

$IF BLOCKCOMMENT THEN
  Comment
  Comment
  Comment
$END IF

[Pete]

Well that's both clever and handy.

It can work with something as short as this, too...

$IF ' THEN
    sdfsfsdf
    sfdsfsfsf
    sdfsdfsdf
    sfsdfsdf
$END IF

[xra7en]

well hell, that's pretty slick - not pretty, but slick