Re: Another bizarre phenomenon
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- Subject: [mg51661] Re: [mg51598] Another bizarre phenomenon
- From: DrBob <drbob at bigfoot.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 23:44:20 -0400 (EDT)
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> Thanks for the tip. I've never suspected that comments could be a problem
> until the latest experience, because it would seem that the logic to handle
> them is so simple. But maybe not.........
It's not a matter of logic; the front end is buggy, that's all.
I never hear anything good about (* comments *), so I don't use them.
An advantage of "comments" is that they're stored in the function definition, so that when you use ? or ?? to look up the function, you can see the comments. (* comments *) are not stored.
test:=Module[{c=Pi},(* not stored *)
"stored";c]
?test
I don't actually do this myself; I document my code in text cells.
Bobby
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:32:11 -0700, Steve Gray <stevebg at adelphia.net> wrote:
> Dr Bob,
>
> Thanks for the tip. I've never suspected that comments could be a problem
> until the latest experience, because it would seem that the logic to handle
> them is so simple. But maybe not.........
>
> Steve
>
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> From: "DrBob" <drbob at bigfoot.com>
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> To: "Steve Gray" <stevebg at adelphia.net>; <mathgroup at smc.vnet.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 1:14 AM
> Subject: [mg51661] Re: [mg51598] Another bizarre phenomenon
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>> Don't use (* comments *). They're not worth all the problems they
> engender.
>>
>> It's better to modularize the code so that it's self-explanatory and, when
> that's impossible, precede a Module with a text cell that describes the
> processing.
>>
>> If you really want comments inside a Module, Block, or other compound
> statement, put them in quotes and delimit them with semicolons, like this:
>>
>> Block[{a, b},
>> "I'm gonna add a and b"; a+b
>> ]
>>
>> The "comment" is an expression like any other, but it doesn't do anything.
>>
>> This approach may have speed and memory consequences (possibly), but they
> will be very slight.
>>
>> Bobby
>>
>> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 01:53:58 -0400 (EDT), Steve Gray
> <stevebg at adelphia.net> 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?
>> >
>> > Steve Gray
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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