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You can put me down for a "Yes!".  However, as SimpleScratch implies, I'm pretty sure the Scratch team is aware of our desires; now we just need to be patient and wait for them to do it.

I do hope that discussions such as this will help the team prioritize their resources and put Commenting on the top of their "to-do" list.  It's painful to not have a feature - it's far worse to have had it for a little while and then to lose it.

Comments are very useful in code. Without them it's very difficult to organize your code in larger programs.

I think most people agree that they would like "a" comment block. The problem is, what should it look like and how should it work? I think there's a long thread about it elsewhere, but if I remember right the main problem with the beta version was that young programmers expected the block to do something ("it says 'comment', and I want my sprite to make a comment, but it's not working?"), and thus it was confusing. I expect that John and the team will come up with something, if only to stop Kevin from complaining about it 

I triple the idea to redesign Scratch. First of all, I do not think that the "timer" block belongs in the sensing category. I think maybe it should maybe go into the control category. Or maybe a category of its own, with new ideas. Here are some ideas for the timer block:
1) A pause block
2) a resume block
3) a change timer by: block
But, I'll stick to topic. I am very upset that they got rid of the comment block. There should be a category of its own with different types of new blocks. That would be useful. Count another vote for "yes".

@MITScratcher

relyt12101 meant the Scratch Team's desire to re-design the comment block not the whole of scratch 

regards

Simon

Please vote!

Oldschooler2 wrote:

You kind of can already simulate a comment block by using the <say[ ] block not the <say[  ]for(  )secs> block and put right next to the codes.

Yeah, unless you use the Clean Up feature to align all your scripts neatly, if you do that the comments get moved away from the script they are refering to.  I use Clean Up all the time 

Even more terse than the repeat 0 approach is to use 
say "comment text" for 0 secs

The only disadvantages of this relative to the real comment block are
   1) you have to make your comment only one line.
   2) it is confusing to use a "say" block which normally does something to do nothing.

i hope they put it back like it used to be!

I vote in favor of a comment block, despite being a Scratch newbie (unfamiliar with the 'old' comment block) and non-programmer.

But the Scratch team seems so talented, that I have a related suggestion: when right-clicking blocks, a popup now appears; add a 'comment-out' choice that would disable the block and make it gray. Sure, it's easy to drag blocks out, but not always so easy to know where they belonged.

Thanks for Scratch, it's awesome!

Last edited by dagnew (2008-02-07 17:10:57)

Go to scrolling done right by archmage.  It has comment blocks that you guys can pirate!
I don't see why they can't.  Many other programming languages have them.

I can't say no, because it is a great idea, but I cannot say yes, because you do not need comment blocks just do this:

<repeat( 0 )
<say[ Whatever you want ]
<say[ Next line ]
<say[ Next line and repeat (see, you do not need one single row silly)
<end>

My point.

Last edited by Lucario621 (2008-02-13 19:31:39)