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Re: [PATCH] Moving Comments node from objects.texi to intro.texi


From: Thien-Thi Nguyen
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Moving Comments node from objects.texi to intro.texi
Date: 07 Sep 2005 14:55:25 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2

Joshua Varner <address@hidden> writes:

> When going through objects.texi the oddest part I found,
> was the section on comments. To me comments have nothing
> to do with objects, and while tangentially related to read
> syntax they are not part of any particular object's read syntax.

i tend to think that comments belong with objects in the same
way a picture contains both background and foreground.  another
metaphor that comes to mind is that comments is the nil to the
rest of the objects' non-nil; the truth of a piece of code is
not completely describable subtracting one or the other.

thi






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