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

From: João Távora <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 18:32:17 +0000

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020, 17:22 Drew Adams <[email-masked]> wrote:

> > 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)
>
> +1 for Common-Lisp block comments.
>

+1. Let's not stray away from existing solutions.

(And for reader macros, FWIW...)

+2 Yep, just make a programmable reader.

Even without such a thing, reader conditionals are just what's requested
here.

João