Subject: Re: #| Why doesn't Scheme have multi-line comments? |#
From: rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Date: 1996/09/29
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
Message-ID: <52lb49$ng6@tokyo.engr.sgi.com>

Don Smith <dsmith@rose.cs.waikato.ac.nz> wrote:
+---------------
| Why doesn't Scheme have multi-line comments, like Common Lisp's #| .... |#?   
| Sure would come in handy.   
+---------------

Though it's not in IEEE or R4RS Scheme, in fact, many (most?) of the
publicly available implementations *do* provide #|...|# comments.
[E.g., SCM, MzScheme, MIT Scheme, libscheme. But not SIOD.]


-Rob

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