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27.1; Feature request: SRFI-62 style comments for Emacs Lisp.

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, Vladimir Nikishkin <lockywolf <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 44554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44554: 27.1; Feature request: SRFI-62 style comments for Emacs Lisp.
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 09:17:50 -0800 (PST)

> 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.

(And for reader macros, FWIW...)

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