[pro] #; comments...

[Pascal Costanza]

On 6 May 2012, at 21:26, Willem Broekema wrote:

> On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Pascal Costanza <pc at p-cos.net> wrote:
>> Currently, if you want to comment out a form from CL code, there is no standard way of doing this. Many people use something like #+nil, or similar tricks, but this is not 100% reliable. R6RS Scheme introduced #; as a solution, and this seems to become somewhat popular in CL as well.
> 
> How would
> 
>  #; expression
> 
> differ from
> 
>  #+(or) expression
> 
> which is 100% reliable and standard?


It's probably just me, but I find #+(or) and #-(and) confusing - I always have to stop at such a place for a minute to think about what the actual outcome is...

Pascal

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