Being able to // comment in formulas, like in normal code editors

Agreed that would be a nice feature. There are some workarounds, as mentioned in this thread: [image] Comment in formula Suggestion Box If you have a very pressing need to leave a note in a formula, there are ways of doing that. eg, you can replace some piece(of, code) …

Would really love support for // comments in code also. Similarly, if a Rule could have a description. This way complicated docs will be easier to understand long in the future by the original author or more importantly, other people.

Hi all, Coda has opened up a survey on feedback about commenting. If you’d like to participate, here’s the topic with the information: [image] Feedback requested: Coda is seeking feedback on commenting Hey there! My name is Teresa wave and I’m a PM here at Coda. We’ve h…

As clarified in the comment section in the survey topic, unfortunatelly this feedback is focused on page commenting, which is a totally different thing from formula commenting.

what? i thought this was for commenting FORMULAS which is needed URGENTLY i have no use for comments on pages we already have a mechanism for that ??? max

I agree. I think the comment section is well developed and they shouldn’t be taking so much attention to that. They should definetly add formula commenting, which is a crucial thing for bigger workflows.

[image] Looks like Coda has an experimental support for /* comment */.

[image] l446240525: /* comment */. interesting, how did you find out?

[image] l446240525: /* comment */ :kissing: That would be huge news for me. Unfortunately can’t reproduce it on my end :frowning: [Capture d’écran 2022-12-15 à 11.51.52] Maybe a test not deployed everywhere ?

alas, the OP example did not just fail on the // as indicated by the red markers. thats probably due to the way the parser works, it didnt understand the /*111111*/ token and it didnt understand the // token either, but it only reports one error, not all the errors in the expression. so; neither t…

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Ryan_Martens2 August 20, 2021, 6:14am 2

Agreed that would be a nice feature. There are some workarounds, as mentioned in this thread:

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