Subject: Re: dumb newbie question From: Erik Naggum <clerik@naggum.no> Date: 1998/01/13 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3093640417948131@naggum.no> * Mari Masuda | Is there a way to do multiline comments in Common LISP/MCL? * Frank Chen | Everything placed between a #| and |# is ignored. this is not so, actually. your statement could easily be construed to mean that the a #| is terminated by the first following |#, but #| and |# comments nest. this means that it is quite safe to comment out an arbitrary amount of code with #| ... |#, quite unlike /* and */ in C, which are useless if the region you wish to comment out may contain another comment. #:Erik, picking another nit for my nit collection, soon to go on world tour -- The year "98" was new 1900 years ago. | Help fight MULE in GNU Emacs 20! Be year 2000 compliant, write "1998"! | http://sourcery.naggum.no/emacs/