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Re: Another bizarre phenomenon

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg51636] Re: Another bizarre phenomenon
• From: nafod40 <noneya at business.com>
• Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 23:42:39 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Penn State University, Center for Academic Computing
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Steve Gray wrote:
> I replaced a 3-letter symbol with another 3-letter symbol, looking at
> eachsearch and replacement. All seemed ok. Then I tried to execute the
> file and it went nuts. I somehow found that if I removed JUST ONE SPACE
> between the Module list of local symbols in a function definition line,
> and a comment on the same line, all was OK again.  Wow. This happened
> at least twice, identically. Any comments?

Comments are extraordinarily buggy in Mathematica. Have been since I've 
been using the tool about 8 years ago. For some reason they just don't 
have high on their list of things to fix.

In general, anything other than your plain vanilla executable code, such 
as comments or colored fonts or other stylistic variations will subject 
you to random, hard to trace bugs like you just found.

Some previous threads...

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=mathematica+comments+bug&hl=en&lr=&selm=7pl6md%24cea%40smc.vnet.net&rnum=1

http://tinyurl.com/6coma