Re: handling comments in the parser

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 06/06/2012 04:04 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> So would there be any objection to simplifying the parser so that it
> discards comments (except for the first block that defines the
> docstring for a function; we would continue to store that as needed)?
> Can anyone think of trouble that this change would cause?

Would this throw off the line numbers for debugging in some way?

Might it be worth keeping this code in some form as a translator 
feature?  I.e., creates canonical syntax from users code?

Dan