Re: Syntax error using (*comments*)
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- Subject: [mg23969] Re: Syntax error using (*comments*)
- From: "Atul Sharma" <atulksharma at yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 03:00:51 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: McGill University
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I don't know about Linux, but in transporting notebooks created on a Mac to the Windows version, this problem is largely avoided by clearly separating comments with semicolons or by including comments only in text cells. It's labor intensive, but saves a lot of grief in the long-run. I'm not sure why the parser has trouble with comments, but I pulled out a lot of hair when I needed to move a large number of notebooks from one platform to the other. Atul ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Atul Sharma MD, FRCP(C) Pediatric Nephrologist, McGill University/Montreal Children's Hospital Grischa Stegemann wrote in message <8icco2$9om at smc.vnet.net>... >(It seems that my first posting didn't made it through to other >news-servers, thus I have to try it again. Sorry if this will lead to >an annoying double-posting.) > > >Hi all > >I just encountered a silly problem with the Mathematica 3.0 frontend >on a Linux system. > >Typing a simple cell including a comment like > In[1]:= 4+3 (*guess what*) >and evaluating it results in the following output: > Out[1]= 4+3 Null > >Furthermore, adding a comma to the comment, e.g. > In[2]:= 4+3 (*9, more or less*) >brings up this: > Out[2]= Syntax::"sntxf": "(*" cannot be followed by "9, more or > less*)" > >To me this seems to be pretty inexplicable, isn't it? > >Usually I'm using Mathematica 3.0 on a Solaris system without any >problems. Now using my notebooks full of comments on this Linux system >seems to be impractical. > >Any ideas about that? >-- > Grischa > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Grischa Stegemann Technische Universitaet Berlin >email: Stegemann at physik.tu-berlin.de > >*** We are here on Earth to do good for others. >*** What the others are here for, I do not know. (W.H. Auden) >