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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Vladimir Nikishkin <lockywolf <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 14:05:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Merged with 57966

Found in versions 27.1, 28.1

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
Cc: Vladimir Nikishkin <lockywolf <at> gmail.com>, Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>, 44554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44554: 27.1; Feature request: SRFI-62 style comments for Emacs Lisp.
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 13:50:45 +0100

Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org> writes:

> No, not without modification. For example, #; would be treated as #
> and a comment removing the rest of the line by most existing lexers.
>
> And it's not just my code.

Sure, it would be a new feature, and older lexers wouldn't understand
the new grammar, but that's true of (almost) any new language feature.
The question is whether this feature is useful enough to warrant the
pain inflicted, and...  I guess there isn't all that much enthusiasm for
it?  To me it sounds more like "that'd be neat" instead of "yeah, I can
see myself using it all the time".

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