Re: Block comment syntax

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer <address@hidden>:

>> The block comment documentation[1] claims that the closing "!#" must
>> appear on its own line, but this doesn't actually seem to be the
>> case[2]. For example, the line "(display #! comment !# 1)"
>> successfully outputs "1".
>>
>> Can anyone clarify whether the documentation needs to be updated, or
>> if the currently acceptable syntax is unintentional and should be
>> avoided?
>
> While I don't know the answer to your question, Guile 2.0.11 already
> seems to support the #| |# syntax, which has been standardized in
> R7RS,

The "#!" syntax is there for one purpose only: to support the unix/linux
hash-bang syntax. Every "scripting" language needs to support it. "#|"
can't replace it. I wouldn't use "#!" anywhere else in a guile source
file.

<URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_%28Unix%29>


Marko