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bug#31623: 27.0; Elisp manual, index entry "; in comment"
From: |
Noam Postavsky |
Subject: |
bug#31623: 27.0; Elisp manual, index entry "; in comment" |
Date: |
Tue, 29 May 2018 19:32:23 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> From the text of index entry "; in comment" I would expect a node that
> talks about the use of `;' inside a comment. I cannot imagine what
> other sense someone might make of this index-entry text.
>
> But the target of the index entry, node `Comments', does not seem to
> say anything about a `;' character inside a comment.
As far as I can tell, it refers to this sentence:
In Lisp, a semicolon (`;') starts a comment if it is not
within a string or character constant.
So, if it is not "within a string or character constant" then the
semicolon is in a comment.
- bug#31623: 27.0; Elisp manual, index entry "; in comment", Drew Adams, 2018/05/28
- bug#31623: 27.0; Elisp manual, index entry "; in comment",
Noam Postavsky <=
- bug#31623: 27.0; Elisp manual, index entry "; in comment", Drew Adams, 2018/05/29
- bug#31623: 27.0; Elisp manual, index entry "; in comment", Noam Postavsky, 2018/05/29
- bug#31623: 27.0; Elisp manual, index entry "; in comment", Drew Adams, 2018/05/29
- bug#31623: 27.0; Elisp manual, index entry "; in comment", Noam Postavsky, 2018/05/29
- bug#31623: 27.0; Elisp manual, index entry "; in comment", Drew Adams, 2018/05/29