Closed iacore closed 12 months ago
FWIW, that's how it also works in Clojure.
A similar form in Emacs Lisp called ignore
also works that way.
I would prefer that the current behavior not change.
I wouldn't mind an additional form that behaves differently though.
I don't think special form or defmacro
can work like I proposed. It has to be in the parser.
I don't know about closure. Scheme has #;(...)
. It's convenient when writing code, to disable a part of code with that.
Closing for now. Discussion: #1272
(comment x)
returnsnil
. I don't think it should be the case, since it should just be ignored like comment.The following should work