Commenting (Code)

Sadly the only way to do this is by using

let text := "notes"

Agus, You don't need to set a comment to a variable. You only need to put the comment between double quotes and it can span multiple lines. You can add // or /* */, but it isn't necessary.

Karen, I thought I needed to put a semicolon at the end of each line of a multiline comment too, but it's not necessary. I put this in a formula field and get the result of the arithmetic...

"This is a comment on line 1

This is a comment on line 5";
2 + 2

I would like to be able to use standard commenting as well because if you want to comment out a section of code that already has double quotes you have to double-up on those quotes. Sometimes it is more practical to copy and paste the code to a text editor.

Regarding your question about why they can't just make it that way, it's not just the editor it's also the lexer and parser. I don't know if they developed the editor from scratch or are using an open-source text editor with most of the good stuff turned off. The code editor doesn't have basic find/replace which causes me to copy/paste to TextEdit. I could go on about how changes in code can wipe out all of a formula somewhere else and the icy feeling I get when I see the red rectangle around the formula text box, but these are things I have learned to live with.