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Re: Re: Mathematica commenting of code using

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  • Subject: [mg84963] Re: [mg84926] Re: [mg84914] Mathematica commenting of code using
  • From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
  • Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 04:13:08 -0500 (EST)
  • Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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  • Reply-to: murray at math.umass.edu

Then so much the worse for the lax rules enforced by those other languages!

Nasser Abbasi wrote:
> ----- 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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