Re: Lines in Startup.Int

[Nathan Sivin nsivin@xxxxxxxx]

The comment string ;*; is documented in the manual and has its
uses. I find when writing XPL programs, they are often easier to
read if I use the comment sign to precede a newline, so each
actually appears on a separate line without the newline
[=carriage return] doing anything, e.g.
Line1 ;*;
Line 2 ;*;
etc.

As Carl put it yesterday, this symbol lets you treat a freeform
programming language as though it were line-oriented without
actually changing its character.

Cheers,
--
Nathan Sivin
History and Sociology of Science
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia PA 19104-6304
(215) 898-7454
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