<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On May 16, 2022, at 6:31 PM, Chris Muller <asqueaker@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div id="gmail-m_4132353372006848215divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" dir="ltr"><p><span style="font-size:12pt">No ultra-strong opinion here, but in general, comments are an inherent part of Smalltalk. As code and comments tell a shared story together, I'm not convinced by separating both from each other even more. Italic has a "virtual", "artificial", or "auxiliary"
connotation to me, as opposed to "normal" or "real" code.</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div>Interesting, this is actually why I use italic for comments. It's <i>human-speak</i>, whereas the upright code speaks to the computer. Italics is often used in writing for referring to external quotations, which enhance the thing being written about. It seems like a perfect fit, to me.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><br><div>+1</div></body></html>