On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 8:13 AM, philip.hazel...@gmail.com<philip.hazel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Jul 17, 4:56 am, Richard Newman <holyg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> If you want unsyntactic input in your file, comment it out with >> semicolons. >> >> Adding true block comments -- #| |# -- is on the to-do list. > While we're on the subject, are there any plans for a sexp-comment? > Essentially I'm looking for reader syntax that removes the next > expression from the parse tree entirely. (comment ...) returns nil, > which isn't always appropriate. (You can't use it to remove one of the > (arglist body) forms of a defn, for example.) And using semicolons > often requires you to move closing parens to the next line. Block > comments work for this, but I consider them more verbose than > necessary - maybe that's just me. > > (I once tried to write a reader macro for CL which would do this, but > the best I got was one which would read two forms and ignore the > first.)
#_ does what you want: user=> (list 1 2 #_42 3) (1 2 3) Rich --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
