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

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• Subject: [mg84926] Re: [mg84914] Mathematica commenting of code using (* *) can't be nested well.
• From: "Nasser Abbasi" <nma at 12000.org>
• Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:31:46 -0500 (EST)
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• Reply-to: "Nasser Abbasi" <nma at 12000.org>

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Murray Eisenberg" <murray at math.umass.edu>


> Without a second right-end *) to match, I think this should obviously be 
> treated as a syntax error.
>

I think Mathematica is free to have its language rules of course, I was just 
commenting because that is NOT how other languages normally treats comments 
that has an opening and closing tokens.

Once a comment is started, everything in from of it is ignored until the 
comment is closed.

This works in C:       /*  comment   /*  still inside a commant   */
This work in C++:    //  comment   //  still inside a commant   //
This does NOT work in Mathematica  (*  comment  (*  still inside a comment 
*)

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Nasser 

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