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Mathematica commenting of code using (* *) can't be nested well.

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• Subject: [mg84914] Mathematica commenting of code using (* *) can't be nested well.
• From: "Nasser Abbasi" <nma at 12000.org>
• Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 06:01:40 -0500 (EST)

Mathematica 6.0.1

I do not understand why the following can't be taken as a valid comment

(*  comment here   (*  more comments  *)

It seems to me that once the first (* is seen by the parser then it should 
take everything in front of it, all the way until it sees the closing *) as 
one comment.

But in the above it does not. The (* in the middle breaks this, which does 
not make too much sense to me. What do you think?

Nasser

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