[Rd] wishlist (PR#7261)

[mark0060 at tc.umn.edu]

Full_Name: Kristian Markon
Version: 1.9.1
OS: Windows, Linux
Submission from: (NULL) (66.41.56.226)


I'm just emailing to say great work, and to put in a suggestion for something
I've wanted to see for a long time: multiline comments or some equivalent.

It's not something that makes or breaks my experience with R, but something I've
often wanted, and something I think prevents me from commenting more in my R
code. 

I know I could tinker with an editor and get the same results by adding a # to
each line, but sometimes such a thing isn't possible, and I would like it
natively handled in R.

Seeing as how R comments look like other scripting language comments (e.g.,
Perl), some similar POD convention involving = might be good; e.g., 

=begin
=end

or

#=
#= 

or something like that. 

Anyway, just a wish. Not going to be horribly sad or anything. Just putting it
out there. 

Thanks.