Subject: Re: bug#44554: 27.1; Feature request: SRFI-62 style comments for Emacs Lisp.

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 15:57:16 +0100

Vladimir Nikishkin <[email-masked]> writes:

> #;(defvar demo-variable nil
>   "This is a demo-variable declared to illustrate SRFI-62.")
> ```
>
> The special reader syntax "#;" means "please, ignore the next valid
> s-expression completely".

Sexp-based comments would certainly be nice, but I wonder whether
comment blocks would be even more useful (if we have to prioritise):

#| this is
a comment |#

The advantage is that you don't have to have syntactically valid things
in comment blocks, while #; requires that you do.  #; also looks like
slightly hard to read if you do stuff like

(foo #;(foobar
        ...
        1)
     zot)

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