On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Alpheus Madsen wrote:
> To the best of my knowledge, Common Lisp does not have multi-line
> comments, so I don't think this is going to be an issue for Common Lisp.
>
It does, and they nest:
http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/02_dhs.htm
--
Beni
> I think comments should nest iff they nest in that language *without* our
readers. That is, if #|...|# nests in the underlying language, then it
should in our reader. If it doesn't, it shouldn't. Remember, we're trying
to maximize backwards compatibility, so we shouldn't change the semantics
of
Alan Manuel Gloria:
> The comments themselves remove text in the following manner:
>
> #|.. #|...|#...|# nests
>
> #!..!# doesn't nest, as per Guile behavior
I think that's perfect. As much as possible we should be backwards-compatible,
and this fits the bill.
> #; x y z removes the x (only c
The comments themselves remove text in the following manner:
#|.. #|...|#...|# nests
#!..!# doesn't nest, as per Guile behavior
#; x y z removes the x (only c-expressions/n-expressions are removed).
Sorry, but it gets *really* difficult to make this work at the
t-expression level - you need som
Alpheus Madsen:
> As a general rule, I expect "multi-line" comments to be comments that just
> disappear when compiled.
Agree.
> Oh, and this will likely make the implementation of comments more
> complicated, but would it be possible to make these comments "nested"? It
> has always bugged m
As a general rule, I expect "multi-line" comments to be comments that just
disappear when compiled.
Oh, and this will likely make the implementation of comments more
complicated, but would it be possible to make these comments "nested"? It
has always bugged me, where multi-line comments are allow
Alan Manuel Gloria
> Before, when planning out multiline comments, I thought that:
>
> #|comment|# foo bar
>
> would be equivalent to:
>
> \\ foo bar
...
> However, when I implemented it, I completely forgot to consider the
> following case:
>
> foo #|comment|# bar
>
> The current implementati
Before, when planning out multiline comments, I thought that:
#|comment|# foo bar
would be equivalent to:
\\ foo bar
would be equivalent to:
foo bar
or
(foo bar)
However, when I implemented it, I completely forgot to consider the
following case:
foo #|comment|# bar
The current implementat
