inline comments

Just found out by accident that comments may be placed in lines with the ;|. .
..|; style. Such as:

;|A|;(cond
( (= pt1tyep 'STR) ;User entered something at keyboard
;|B|; (cond
;|B.1|; (setq go 0) ;get out of program
)
;|B.2|; ( (and (= (atof pt1) 0.0) ;evaluates to 0.0 -but atof gives 0.0 for
alpha strings, too.
(0string pt1) ;is in fact user-entered 0.0

I think the vlisp editor will mess them up but the code runs fine.

I'm not sold that it's a good idea -- but it does open possibilities. Anybody
here make use of it?

rs

 

It's actually for comment blocking, such as headers in the .lsp file...used when you have more than one line of comments, usually...

 

Yes, that's why I was interested that it works within a line, too.

rs

 

I used them all the time, and they are supported by the VLIDE, and they are
documented in the AutoLISP Developer's Guide.

--
R. Robert Bell


"TCEBob" <tcebobatgwidotnet> wrote in message Just found out by accident that comments may be placed in lines with the ;|.
..
..|; style. Such as:

;|A|;(cond
( (= pt1tyep 'STR) ;User entered something at keyboard
;|B|; (cond
;|B.1|; (setq go 0) ;get out of program
)
;|B.2|; ( (and (= (atof pt1) 0.0) ;evaluates to 0.0 -but atof gives 0.0
for
alpha strings, too.
(0string pt1) ;is in fact user-entered 0.0

I think the vlisp editor will mess them up but the code runs fine.

I'm not sold that it's a good idea -- but it does open possibilities.
Anybody
here make use of it?

rs

 

Well, durn, thanks for your input guys. I really thought that they were intended
only for multiline comments and would screw up the end of a line. Just tried it
in vlide and it survived formatting just fine.

rs

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Okay...gotcha...