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Re: Comments are KILLING me

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  • Subject: [mg37738] Re: Comments are KILLING me
  • From: "Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
  • Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 05:38:47 -0500 (EST)
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Mike,
I set your code (in 2D form)and put it into a  .m file (1) by copying and
p[asting into a the file (2) by making the containing cell initializing and
using Edit>Copy Selection As>Package Format.
I  then loaded the file using <<.
In both cases test evaluated with no problem.

Maybe I am missing something/

I am using Mathematica m.2

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Allan

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"Nafod40" <may106 at psu.edu> wrote in message
news:aqfp6g$7d3$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> I can write a simple package with a single line of code written in
> StandardForm, so the 1/10 term is written 1 on top of 10...
>
> test := Module[(x = 1/10, (* now is the time *) y = 2}, x]
>
> Using StandardForm and 2D mathematical typesetting, it works fine in
> the notebook. Save it as a package and load it in, and I get a slew of
> error messages...
>
> \!\(InputForm\`Syntax::"sntxb" :
>     "Expression cannot begin with etc....
>
> This is KILLING me! If the Front End has a bug in it, then make
> comments illegal. If comments are OK, then fix the bug! I (am trying
> to) use text, mathematical typesetting, and comments to provide a best
> product to my customer. While text is great, there is certainly a time
> and a place for comments within the code.
>
> Does anyone have some sort of add-in such that the autopackage
> function converts all cells to input form first? Or reconverts to
> StandardForm? I don't need to carry any of the comments or formatting
> into the *.m file, and prefer that none of it did. Wolfram, do you
> guys have anything like this?
>
> Why hasn't this been fixed?
>
> Mike
>




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