Re: Block comments inside block comments

[David Grundberg]

Carnë Draug wrote:
> Hi
>
> I just realized that when inside a block comment, octave still notices
> the start of another block comment. If this happens, then it's needed
> to close it again. Not sure if I'm clear so here's an example what I
> mean
>
> printf ("Not comment 1\n");
> #{
>    printf ("Comment 1\n");
>    #{
>    printf ("Comment 2\n");
> #}
> printf ("I'd have guessed NOT a comment but it is a comment and gives
> warning of unclosed block comment\n");
>
> Is this a feature or a bug? My idea on how comments work is that
> everything is ignored until the end of the comment (end of the line,
> in one line comments, or end of block character) but I may be wrong.
>
> Carnë Draug
>
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That depends on the language, ML has recursive block comments as an 
example. However, most imperative languages have block comments that can 
be found with a regular expression (i.e. not recursive). How does matlab 
interpret %{ }% comments?

David