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fanf ([personal profile] fanf) wrote in [personal profile] simont 2013-06-19 06:42 pm (UTC)

In a language with significant newlines you need both comment-with-splice and comment-without-splice - the latter so that you can add a comment without affecting the meaning of the layout. For example, I might have a makefile containing

OUTPS=${SRC:.tex=.ps}
OUTPDF=${SRC:.tex=.pdf}
OUTDVI=${SRC:.tex=.dvi}

And I should be able to comment out any of those lines without inadvertently concatenating them.

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