inline comments

[TCEBob]

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

[Dommy2Hotty]

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

[TCEBob]

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

rs

"Dommy2Hotty" <nospam@address.withheld> wrote in message
news:16657430.1104097330131.JavaMail.jive@jiveforu m1.autodesk.com...

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

[R. Robert Bell]

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 news:41cf2aa9$1_3@newsprd01...
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

[TCEBob]

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

Living and Learning

[Dommy2Hotty]

Okay...gotcha...