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author | Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> | 2018-06-20 08:40:51 -0400 |
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committer | Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> | 2018-06-20 08:46:13 -0400 |
commit | 40e1db8ccd1239fc7da5ccd3f5f79017b2b44afc (patch) | |
tree | 15fca47db3b99213209c91973588ccd189d9ec55 | |
parent | d289e7e38a4769fad8a3390721f75d996d0e07b4 (diff) | |
download | emacs-40e1db8ccd1239fc7da5ccd3f5f79017b2b44afc.tar.gz |
Change index of ";" to better reflect it's usage (Bug#31623)
* doc/lispref/objects.texi (Comments): "; for commenting" fits better
with the following text about how a semicolon begins a comment. Also
mention that only unescaped semicolons start a comment.
-rw-r--r-- | doc/lispref/objects.texi | 18 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/doc/lispref/objects.texi b/doc/lispref/objects.texi index c7e751cbd8c..b8cae49027c 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/objects.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/objects.texi @@ -109,15 +109,15 @@ not be evaluated later. @xref{Input Functions}, for a description of @node Comments @section Comments @cindex comments -@cindex @samp{;} in comment - - A @dfn{comment} is text that is written in a program only for the sake -of humans that read the program, and that has no effect on the meaning -of the program. In Lisp, a semicolon (@samp{;}) starts a comment if it -is not within a string or character constant. The comment continues to -the end of line. The Lisp reader discards comments; they do not become -part of the Lisp objects which represent the program within the Lisp -system. +@cindex @samp{;} for commenting + + A @dfn{comment} is text that is written in a program only for the +sake of humans that read the program, and that has no effect on the +meaning of the program. In Lisp, an unescaped semicolon (@samp{;}) +starts a comment if it is not within a string or character constant. +The comment continues to the end of line. The Lisp reader discards +comments; they do not become part of the Lisp objects which represent +the program within the Lisp system. The @samp{#@@@var{count}} construct, which skips the next @var{count} characters, is useful for program-generated comments containing binary |