[plt-scheme] Student parsing problem

On Jun  3, Anthony Cowley wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Eli Barzilay<eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> >> I agree that it is convenient to comment out multiple sexprs, but
> >> I think that, at this point, one falls back to the #| |# syntax
> >
> > Well, that still has the same problem of two points that needs
> > editing if you want to uncomment the two expressions back
> > in.  (BTW, just the word "uncomment" is a strong hint that this
> > kind of convenience is needed...)
> 
> But that seems like something that can be handled at the editor
> level: a keystroke that strips an enclosing #| |# pair. It's still
> not perfect because you need to select a region to comment out,
> rather than just visually counting the sexprs, but the "uncomment"
> action can be addressed without new syntax. One could take the idea
> further and have an emacs-ish chord that takes an argument to
> indicate how many sexprs to comment out. Put the cursor before an
> sexpr, hit C-whatever, then a number to indicate how many sexprs,
> and the editor can insert the #| |# pair around the region.

[That's a valid point, and again -- it works against `#;' too.]

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