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Ever wanted to provide your arguments to a function as a comment? (media.phpc.social)

submitted 1 day ago by chrastecky@phpc.social to c/php@programming.dev

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Ever wanted to provide your arguments to a function as a comment?

https://gist.github.com/RikudouSage/18defbf1746322a289ae78b2980d0115

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[–] zygo_histo_morpheus@programming.dev 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

This reminds me of a trick to get multiline strings in javascript before they where formally introduced. If you coerce a function in to a string you get the source code for that function, comments and all. This meant that you could write a function with multiline comments and then pick out the middle part. Haven't tested it so it's probably sligthly wrong but it was something like:

var multiLine = ('' + function () {/*
line 1
line 2
*/});
multiLine = multiLine.substring(16, subString.length-4);