Elisp now alows comments without ;. (setq emacs-lisp-allow-literal-comments nil) (setq byte-compile-allow-literal-comments nil) (message "Hello, World!") It is of course possible to intertwene code with comments anywhere in the file. (message "Hello Again!") Of course we can also comment-out code just as before: ;;(message "I am silent") In code blocs the ';' is still a comment delimiter: (message ;; Here is a line commne "I am a bit chatty today!") That's it for today folks! (message "Bye bye cruel world!")