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

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Message #20 received at 44554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Vladimir Nikishkin <lockywolf <at> gmail.com>, 44554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#44554: 27.1; Feature request: SRFI-62 style comments for
 Emacs Lisp.
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 22:31:54 +0300

* Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> [2020-11-10 18:03]:
> Vladimir Nikishkin <lockywolf <at> gmail.com> 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 |#

Voting for CL comment blocks.

It will increase documenting ability of Emacs.

I am using such to accept input from customers online, their human
readable data is shown in the comment blocks, and it is all LISP data
that can be processed.

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