From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Marco Maggi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Emacs Lisp comments, Scheme comments, why the limitations Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2020 06:11:51 +0100 Message-ID: <87zhdtslwo.fsf@persi-nel-bosco.it> Reply-To: marco.maggi@persi-nel-bosco.it Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="109032"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 08 06:13:14 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1j0IQc-000SHB-AI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 08 Feb 2020 06:13:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37820 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1j0IQb-00006c-Cq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 08 Feb 2020 00:13:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56675) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1j0IQJ-00006T-3d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Feb 2020 00:12:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j0IQG-0003Jn-U6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Feb 2020 00:12:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mail07.truemail.it ([217.194.8.77]:40661) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j0IQG-0003Cz-Nm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Feb 2020 00:12:52 -0500 Original-Received: from governatore (net-2-35-50-100.cust.vodafonedsl.it [2.35.50.100]) by mail07.truemail.it (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 0A41F1959 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2020 06:12:45 +0100 (CET) Original-Original-Sender: marco.maggi@persi-nel-bosco.it X-Loop: marco@maggi.it.invalid X-Mailer: GNU Emacs Original-Lines: 20 X-PPP-Message-ID: <158113876530.6743.4482934856061463893@mail07.truemail.it> X-PPP-Vhost: persi-nel-bosco.it X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 217.194.8.77 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:122368 Archived-At: Ciao, I am a beginner with elisp (using Emacs 26.3), but I have some experience with Scheme; I wonder why elisp's reader does not support form comments as in Scheme: #;(progn ...) and block comments as in Scheme: #| (progn ...) |# I find them really useful, and I am missing them while writing elisp code. TIA -- Marco Maggi