Re: Adding srfi-30 comments.

[Maciej Stachowiak]

On 03Sep2002 11:34AM (-0700), Bruce Korb wrote:
> Rob Browning wrote:
> 
> >   - #| comments can be nested
> 
> No, please.  Nested comments in C were removed for good
> reason.  It's too confusing.  Editors are very good at
> commenting out blocks of text, no need to muddy syntax
> with another flavor of parenthesis.
> 

The fact that C does not support nested comments leads to the
near-universal recommendation of using #if 0 ... #endif, which does
nest, to comment large blocks of code. I don't think this reduces
confusion at all.

 - Maciej