2013/8/29 Joel Holdbrooks <cjholdbro...@gmail.com>:
> I would imagine it is intended since #_ is a reader macro. #_ is not
> intended for commenting. Rather, it instructs the Clojure Reader to ignore
> entirely the subsequent form. This is much different from the comment macro
> (which simply takes any number of arguments and returns nil) or the ;
> comment syntax.
>
> It might be a bit involved to have #_ and the subsequent form appear
> commented through clojure-mode's syntax highlighting. However, it would also
> incorrectly express the semantics of #_ which, arguably, is counter to the
> goal of syntax highlighting.

Yet it is certainly better, given a dual choice, to present it as
commented code.
Counterclockwise does this since more than a year, and so far, nobody
has complained.

Cheers,

-- 
Laurent

>
>
> On Wednesday, August 28, 2013 3:09:11 PM UTC-7, JvJ wrote:
>>
>> Although semicolons cause the text color to change in order to look
>> "commented-out", the #_ reader macro doesn't cause any such change.  Is this
>> intended, or is it a bug?
>
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