[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #32598] Wishlist : More C-like multi-line block comments

[John W. Eaton]

Update of bug #32598 (project octave):

                  Status:               Postponed => Wont Fix               
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 

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Follow-up Comment #2:

Looking at some old bug reports that are still open...

Octave was changed at some point to only recognize the end of a block comment
marker "#} or %}" if it appears as the beginning of a line (not counting space
characters).

I think this is probably the safest thing to do for compatibility since it is
possible that some working Matlab code could have


%{
  this is a block comment %}
  still a block comment in Matlab
%}


and if we changed the rules to recognize the first "%}" above as the end of
the block comment, this valid Matlab code would fail in Octave.

So I think this report should be closed as "won't fix".

A related issue is that there could be some working Matlab code that looks
like this:


%{
  block comment
#}
  still a block comment in Matlab
%}


and that will fail in Octave.  I'll open a separate bug report about this
issue.

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