Isn't this why you would use a doc string, and not a comment?
On Jul 8, 12:14 pm, Daniel Lyons <fus...@storytotell.org> wrote:
> On Jul 8, 2009, at 5:46 AM, Robert Campbell wrote:
>
> > It seems strange to me that Clojure doesn't support this concept
> > natively
>
> Comments are part of the problem. Clojure's reader strips them out
> while parsing before compiling the function, so you would lose them
> during the first round-trip of read and print. Even a macro doesn't
> really solve this problem; the only possible solution is to accept
> comments that aren't really comments because the reader sees and
> preserves them, or decide that they aren't an important part of the
> function definition.
>
> I'm sure there are other hang-ups (closures are probably another) but
> this is the first one that comes to mind for me.
>
> —
> Daniel Lyons
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