Re: [R] [FORGED] Re: Block comment?

2017-09-05 Thread S Ellison
> Do not the same considerations essentially apply to the well established > /* */ convention used in C? Well maybe you simply *can't* get the "*/" > string within a block of C code, but still Yes, the same problem arises in C. And you _can_ get */ in valid code - as the closing part of

Re: [R] [FORGED] Re: Block comment?

2017-09-03 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 03/09/2017 12:49 AM, Rolf Turner wrote: On 03/09/17 12:29, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 02/09/2017 6:57 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: On 03/09/17 03:56, William Dunlap via R-help wrote: Is the reason you want a block comment containing code (as opposed to arbitrary text) that you want to be able to

Re: [R] [FORGED] Re: Block comment?

2017-09-02 Thread Rolf Turner
On 03/09/17 12:29, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 02/09/2017 6:57 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: On 03/09/17 03:56, William Dunlap via R-help wrote: Is the reason you want a block comment containing code (as opposed to arbitrary text) that you want to be able to easily run the commented out code? If so th

Re: [R] [FORGED] Re: Block comment?

2017-09-02 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 02/09/2017 6:57 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: On 03/09/17 03:56, William Dunlap via R-help wrote: Is the reason you want a block comment containing code (as opposed to arbitrary text) that you want to be able to easily run the commented out code? If so the 'if()' construct has the advantage that yo

Re: [R] [FORGED] Re: Block comment?

2017-09-02 Thread Rolf Turner
On 03/09/17 03:56, William Dunlap via R-help wrote: Is the reason you want a block comment containing code (as opposed to arbitrary text) that you want to be able to easily run the commented out code? If so the 'if()' construct has the advantage that you only need to change code at the start of