Re: Mathematica commenting of code using (* *) can't be nested well.
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- Subject: [mg84933] Re: Mathematica commenting of code using (* *) can't be nested well.
- From: danl at wolfram.com
- Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:35:22 -0500 (EST)
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On Jan 19, 5:06=A0am, "Nasser Abbasi" <n... at 12000.org> wrote: > Mathematica 6.0.1 > > I do not understand why the following can't be taken as a valid comment > > (* =A0comment here =A0 (* =A0more comments =A0*) > > 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 (* Of course Mathematica comments can (* be nested that is. (*He said, parenthetically*).*) Just be sure to check (* for balance, that is*).*) Daniel Lichtblau Wolfram Research