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From: pierson@mist (Dan Pierson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: language commenting constructs
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Date: 21 Mar 89 18:38:19 GMT
References: <10460@lanl.gov> <7555@killer.Dallas.TX.US>
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In-reply-to: elg@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Eric Green)

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.
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                                            dan

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