Hi Malcom, On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Malcolm Tredinnick <[email protected]> wrote: > Very minor point that popped out when I was implementing a grammar parser > for fun this evening. On page 49, the grammar for commenting out datums is > written as > > #; <atmosphere> <datum> > > However, <atmosphere> contains <whitespace> which contains newlines, so that > doesn't look correct. > > #; > (foo) <-- commented out by current grammar. Hmm...
This looks odd, but is actually intentional. In fact, I've seen the idiom along the lines of #; ; reason for commenting out (foo)... (foo) to help editors that don't understand the #; syntax. -- Alex _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
