Lost comments (was Re: R-alpha: New version of R for testing)

[Arne Kovac]

On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Ross Ihaka wrote:

>  o  Comments are handled better in functions.  The rule is that they
>     are shifted to just before their statements.  Comments after the
>     last statement of a function are lost.

More generally each comment between the last statement of a block and its
closing bracket is lost!! I wonder if this is really an advantage: I just
"uncommented" a line for test purposes to see some minutes later that I
had to retype it again. :-(

> dummy<-
+ function () 
+ {
+         for (i in 1:3) {
+                 print(1)
+                #print(2)
+         }
+         More()
+         Commands()
+ }
> dummy
function () 
{
        for (i in 1:3) {
                print(1)
        }
        More()
        Commands()
}

Arne Kovac

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