[Rd] Comments not documented in language reference (PR#2367)
maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch
maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch
Thu Dec 12 18:20:03 2002
>>>>> "Duncan" == Duncan Murdoch <dmurdoch@pair.com>
>>>>> on Thu, 12 Dec 2002 15:19:07 +0100 (MET) writes:
Duncan> The R Language Definition manual should document comments. I think
Duncan> this should go after section 10.1 "The Parsing Process" and before
Duncan> 10.2 "Tokens".
yes, very reasonable -- well spotted!
Duncan> Here's some draft text.
Duncan> @node Comments, Tokens, The parsing process, Parser
Duncan> @comment node-name, next, previous, up
Duncan> @section Comments
Duncan> Comments in R are ignored by the parser. Any text
Duncan> from a \# character to the end of the line is taken
Duncan> to be a comment. For example,
Duncan> @smallexample
>> x <- 1 # This is a comment
Duncan> @smallexample
this is not quite exact. "#" only starts a comment when not
inside a string (or a comment already).
You can add it yourself to doc/manual/R-lang.texi, right?
Martin