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From: goer%sophist@GARGOYLE.UCHICAGO.EDU (Richard Goerwitz)
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Subject: icon #comments
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Date: 26 Sep 90 18:21:45 GMT
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Has anyone worked up an algorithm for stripping comments out of Icon
source files without having to parse every expression?  It appears
that the # shouldn't occur except in strings or csets, or as the com-
ment delineator.  If this is correct, it shouldn't be too hard to
strip them.  Is this correct?

-Richard