Joshua Varner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> When going through objects.texi the oddest part I found,
> was the section on comments. To me comments have nothing
> to do with objects, and while tangentially related to read
> syntax they are not part of any particular object's read syntax.

i tend to think that comments belong with objects in the same
way a picture contains both background and foreground.  another
metaphor that comes to mind is that comments is the nil to the
rest of the objects' non-nil; the truth of a piece of code is
not completely describable subtracting one or the other.

thi




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