[racket] commenting out unbalanced parts of Scribble programs

From: Prabhakar Ragde (plragde at uwaterloo.ca)
Date: Fri May 20 09:59:13 EDT 2011

On 5/20/11 9:42 AM, Matthew Flatt wrote:

> Eli made Scribble's at-exp notation more general: It lets you pick the
> brackets for a comment after `@;', so you can pick a closer that isn't
> used in the region to comment out.
>
> For example, to comment out a single "}",
>
>   @;{
>     }
>   }
>
> would not work, but
>
>   @;|{
>     }
>   }|
>
> works.

Thanks! In the Scribble documentation, section 2.4.1 introduces 
alternative body syntax `@|whatever{ ... }whatever|' for @-expressions, 
but it wasn't clear to me from section 2.4.3 on comments that this 
applied to comments (though I suppose it may be implicit in the 
parenthetical remark "following the same rules for @-forms"). --PR


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