I am developing tools within Coda with others that require some reasonably complex formulas on columns/ in buttons / in general. I have some experience coding in other languages, and utilize //comments quite frequently. I would love to be able to comment like this within formulas to make things a …

I feel like the catch here, is that Coda’s formulas aren’t really multi-line (they added line breaks but the parsing still seems to be treated as if the whole thing was a single line). In that scheme where does the comment end? You could use <* and *> or something, but it still seems a little unwiel…

Hm yes that is a good point. It seems like a simple addition from the outside, but if it’s all parsed as a single line it undoubtedly is be probably more complex to add as a feature. I suppose it may be a better practice for me to simply create documentation around the formulas I’m making. It just …

One thing you can do in some instances, is to break the formulas down into multiple columns/formulas. Sometimes you can get an intermediate representation of your data in one hidden column, then finish processing the data in a visible column. You can have several hidden columns building up to the fi…

In HTML you have always had to close comments: <!- - comment - -> I really don’t think it will be hard to get used to something similar and, as far as I am concerned, that would look fine, in particular when you have multi line comments or code you need to comment out.

I would like to disagree on that approach, although it is a matter of taste and it can, initially, help to build or debug complex code. But at the same time, it makes it harder to grasp the overall picture, making changes later on becomes more complicated and moving or copying code becomes very cum…

[image] // Comments in formulas Suggestion Box [image] Looks like Coda has an experimental support for /* comment */.

// Comments in formulas experimental support for /* comment */. Um, have you actually tried this in a real formula? I don’t see it working.

[image] joost_mineur: I would like to disagree on that approach I’m going to disagree with the disagreers and all manner of “commenting” suggestions. :wink: In the interest of a no-code positioning commitment, I urge the Codans to not drag in antiquated commenting support from decades ago. R…

Hey @Bill_French Just like it took a little time to get used to ‘no-code coding’, I will happily adapt to whichever system of commenting fits best with Coda. I am not particularly in favor of using my suggestion, although I would think that can be implemented just like any other new function. But I…

Thank you for the discussion, all :slightly_smiling_face: @Bill_French It would be great to be able to use the commenting feature within formulas, and makes a lot of sense in terms of aligning with “no-code” principals. I was thinking about this as I was reading through the thread, about how I have…

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