Rather than visual noise, it makes comments sections immediately recoognizable as such. Think of page-long comments containing code samples. The tool support is trivial, and you can always run a simple regex to fix it up.
Line comments in general have the advantage that they can be trivially nested, and the nesting be immediately recognizable as such. For any new programming language, I would only support line comments, for that reason.
Line comments in general have the advantage that they can be trivially nested, and the nesting be immediately recognizable as such. For any new programming language, I would only support line comments, for that reason.