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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2014-08-12 22:23:07 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2014-08-12 22:23:22 +0200
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doc: "!#" does not need to appear on a line of its own.
* doc/ref/api-evaluation.texi (Block Comments): Remove "which must appear on a line of their own". Reported by David Michael <fedora.dm0@gmail.com>.
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diff --git a/doc/ref/api-evaluation.texi b/doc/ref/api-evaluation.texi
index c441dffee..88f713d40 100644
--- a/doc/ref/api-evaluation.texi
+++ b/doc/ref/api-evaluation.texi
@@ -215,8 +215,9 @@ convention is used when indenting code in Emacs' Scheme mode.
In addition to the standard line comments defined by R5RS, Guile has
another comment type for multiline comments, called @dfn{block
comments}. This type of comment begins with the character sequence
-@code{#!} and ends with the characters @code{!#}, which must appear on a
-line of their own. These comments are compatible with the block
+@code{#!} and ends with the characters @code{!#}.
+
+These comments are compatible with the block
comments in the Scheme Shell @file{scsh} (@pxref{The Scheme shell
(scsh)}). The characters @code{#!} were chosen because they are the
magic characters used in shell scripts for indicating that the name of