Re: Mathematica commenting of code using (* *) can't be nested
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- Subject: [mg84941] Re: Mathematica commenting of code using (* *) can't be nested
- From: Szabolcs Horvát <szhorvat at gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:39:30 -0500 (EST)
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Szabolcs Horvát wrote: > I am not sure whether comment nesting has worked correctly in older > versions. I saw a note about this in the Mathematica syntax > highlighting file included with a certain text editor that says that > "the frontend won't always like [nested comments]". > It seems that this is documented for both version 5 and 6: tutorial/DocumentationConstructs > You can add such text at any point in your code simply by enclosing > it in matching (* and *). Notice that in Mathematica, "comments" > enclosed in (* and *) can be nested in any way. So it should work in all situations, otherwise there is a bug in the fe. -- Szabolcs