Re: multiline comments

[Quentin Spencer]

Geordie McBain wrote:

> > Is multiline comments supported in Octave?
> >    
>
> Using short-circuit Boolean operators like
>
>         octave> 1||[
>         > blah
>         > blah blah
>         > ];
> 	octave> 
>
> does the job.  Doesn't really recommend itself as a comment syntax
> though, does it?  I think I recall reading something like this idea on
> this list a while ago but can't find it now, and can't remember
> whether anything less monstrous was suggested.
>  
I'm not sure if this is what was meant in the original question, but 
Matlab 7 now supports block comments of the form
%{
  commented stuff here
%}

As far as I know this has not yet been implemented in octave. It may be 
implemented eventually, but I think it's a low priority for those most 
actively involved in octave development. I'm sure John would welcome a 
patch to support this. Unfortunately I'm not familiar enough with 
octave's parser to attempt this. In the mean time, as Geordie suggests, 
there are other workaraounds (my preferred one is if(0) ... end).
-Quentin



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