Re: why a new lexical form? felix (05 Jun 2002 20:08 UTC)
Re: why a new lexical form? Andreas Fuchs (06 Jun 2002 09:42 UTC)

Re: why a new lexical form? Andreas Fuchs 06 Jun 2002 09:37 UTC

On 2002-06-05, <xxxxxx@freenet.de> wrote:
>>(Comment ...)
>>
>>"expands" to nothing?
>
> What if "..." contains things that the reader can't handle?

This is the simplest case I can think of: you can't comment out
unbalanced parens with this syntax. Say, let "..." be:

  foo
  bar)))

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Andreas Fuchs, <xxxxxx@acm.org>, xxxxxx@jabber.at, antifuchs