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Article #6335Re: language commenting constructs
From: Dan Pierson
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1989 18:38
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1989 18:38
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In article <7555@killer.Dallas.TX.US>, elg@killer (Eric Green) writes:
>The languages in which I have programmed most are "C", Pascal,
>various assembly languages, and Lisp/Scheme. The first two have
>explicit terminators, the latter two make everything between a ";" and
>EOL a comment. When I do assembler or Lisp I regularly run into
>situations where I want to imbed a comment into a statement for
>clarity's sake, and can't do it.
You're probably stuck in assembler, but I sort of question where you'd
need such a feature.
In Common Lisp, you can either use the matching comment syntax
(apply foo #| useless! |# a1 a2)
or define your own with the read-macro facility.
Some Scheme dialects, such as T, let you do similar things.
--
dan
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!encore!mist From: pierson@mist (Dan Pierson) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: language commenting constructs Message-ID: <5175@xenna.Encore.COM> Date: 21 Mar 89 18:38:19 GMT References: <10460@lanl.gov> <7555@killer.Dallas.TX.US> Sender: news@Encore.COM Reply-To: pierson@mist (Dan Pierson) Organization: Encore Computer Corp Lines: 24 In-reply-to: elg@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Eric Green)