Syntax error using (*comments*)
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- Subject: [mg23930] Syntax error using (*comments*)
- From: Grischa Stegemann <Stegemann at Physik.TU-Berlin.DE>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 00:57:10 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Technische Universität Berlin
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
(It seems that my first posting didn't made it through to other
news-servers, thus I have to try it again. Sorry if this will lead to
an annoying double-posting.)
Hi all
I just encountered a silly problem with the Mathematica 3.0 frontend
on a Linux system.
Typing a simple cell including a comment like
In[1]:= 4+3 (*guess what*)
and evaluating it results in the following output:
Out[1]= 4+3 Null
Furthermore, adding a comma to the comment, e.g.
In[2]:= 4+3 (*9, more or less*)
brings up this:
Out[2]= Syntax::"sntxf": "(*" cannot be followed by "9, more or
less*)"
To me this seems to be pretty inexplicable, isn't it?
Usually I'm using Mathematica 3.0 on a Solaris system without any
problems. Now using my notebooks full of comments on this Linux system
seems to be impractical.
Any ideas about that?
--
Grischa
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Grischa Stegemann Technische Universitaet Berlin
email: Stegemann at physik.tu-berlin.de
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