Re: RFC: multiline comments

[John Porter]

Michael Mathews wrote:
> 
> 2) Also this proposition fails in one of my goals, which was to allow
> arbitrary nesting of multiline comments. I believe this would be true for
> any function based solution.
> 
> For example, this should be okay but I don't see how it could:
> 
> 1    qc/*
> 2        added this comment on 08/02/2000
> 3        qc/* this is a nested comment */;
> 4    */;
> 
> Under the current Way (using 1-character delimiters) the first qc would end
> right after the "08" on line 2 (bad). But even under your Way the first qc
> would after line 3, at the first "*/;" encountered (bad too).

Of course, like all the other q.// operators, the actual delimiters
are selectable.  E.g.

  1    qc(* # heh, old Pascal style comments!
  2        added this comment on 08/02/2000
  3        qc/* this is a nested comment */;
  4    *);


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John Porter