"Stavros Macrakis" <stavros.macrakis@verizon.net> writes:
> Pound-sign (#) comments are only supposed to work at the beginning of a
> line (possibly preceded by whitespace). Note that pound sign is
> normally the Maxima "not equal" operator.
>
> I find this convention inconsistent and confusing, and it is never used
> in Maxima source. Is it used in any user batch files as far as we know?
> My tendency would be to deprecate it and eventually eliminate it: /*
> ... */ should be fine in all cases. If we decide we really do need an
> end-of-line comment convention, let's find a better one....
Thanks for the information.
An end-of-line comment convention might be useful for commenting out
parts of a program, but I agree a better one would be nice,
particularly a non-buggy one.
Jay