On Jun 26, Robby Findler wrote: > FWIW, I hope to make #; comments actually turn the commented out > thing the commented out color.
I used to like this feature when it was just an idea, and then it got implemented in Emacs. My conclusion is that unless it's something that composes with the usual colors (something like a different background color, or fading out the existing colors), it would be a mistake. (IOW, the whole point of #;expr is that it is still treated as an expression.) > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <sa...@ccs.neu.edu> > wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 9:15 AM, <engin...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > >> Yes, and it works well. That's what I see as the major feature of the > >> comment box over the comment block. That and the colorizing. While > >> commented out, it still looks like code. > >> > >> I was afraid you were going to remove some of that functionality by not > >> "Scheme mode"-ing them or something. > > > > Are there advantages of comment boxes over s-expression comments > > (using #;) for you? > > -- > > sam th > > sa...@ccs.neu.edu > > > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
