Re: Mathematica commenting of code using (* *) can't
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- Subject: [mg84931] Re: [mg84914] Mathematica commenting of code using (* *) can't
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:34:21 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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Without a second right-end *) to match, I think this should obviously be treated as a syntax error. Nasser Abbasi wrote: > 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 > > -- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305
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- Mathematica commenting of code using (* *) can't be nested well.
- From: "Nasser Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
- Mathematica commenting of code using (* *) can't be nested well.