Re: History of Comment Style & Names
- From: "Coby Beck" <cbeck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 18:27:33 GMT
"Steven M. Haflich" <smh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> J.C. Roberts wrote:
>> Even more strange, I can't recall ever seeing the #| and |# block
>> comments actually used in any of the source I've read.
>
> Of course not. The reader skips everything inside #|...|# syntax
> so how could you possibly remember having read it?
Cute ;)
> Seriously, this syntax is quite useful when you want to embed some
> data in a source file that doesn't consist entirely of Lisp syntax.
> I do this often when debugging, saving some previous interaction or
> debugging output where it will be available when I next work on the
> code.
I think I only use the #||# syntax while a file is under major developement.
That is, as a temporary measure to remove large blocks, or contain half
written stuff etc. Getting rid of those such uses is part of wrapping
things up if they have persisted a long time.
The final product will always use blocks of lines prefixed by ;;; for large
comments.
--
Coby Beck
(remove #\Space "coby 101 @ bigpond . com")
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