Re: Multiline Comments

[Joost Kremers]

On Mon, Nov 09 2020, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> Correct - The problem crops up because expressions still got to be valid.
> I resolve the problem, I use double quotes, so that elisp would consider
> the comment lines as common strings.  Is there a way to construct a macro
> or function to disregard the requirement for valid expressions, because
> one can write whatever one wants in comments.

No, because what's causing problems is the reader, i.e., the part of the Lisp
system that converts the textual representation of Lisp code into the system's
internal representation of Lisp code. In Elisp, you cannot intervene in this
process, so there's no way to construct a macro that does what you want.

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Joost Kremers
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