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

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Message #29 received at 44554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
To: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, 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: Wed, 11 Nov 2020 08:48:40 +0300

* Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org> [2020-11-11 08:42]:
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> 
>   > > #| this is
>   > > a comment |#
> 
>   > Voting for CL comment blocks.
> 
> Before deciding to add any syntax to Emacs Lisp, we must make sure
> that all the Lisp-parsing commands can handle them.
> 
> If some other Lisp mode handles them already, that suggests it won't
> be hard; but we have to verify it works in the context of Emacs Lisp
> mode before making the decision to add that synatx to EMacs Lisp.

Oh, yes! Thank you, it is understandable. In addition it would cause
many compatibility problems with outside packages and previous
versions of Emacs. 

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