From: Dai Yuwen
Subject: what does "#|" mean?
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 09:30:11 +0000
Message-ID: <bacsia$2b7u$1@mail.cn99.com>

Hi, Dear all

I found these lines  in a lisp source file:

#|
;;; Example:
(setq test
       '((0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0)
        (0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0)
        (0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0)
        (0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0)
        (0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0)
        (0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0)
        (0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0)
        (0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0)))

(life test)
|#

;;; *EOF*

It seems that "#|" and "|#" act like "/*" and "*/" in C , comment some codes?  But I guess "#" has 
more complicated meaning, doesn't it?

Best regards,
Dai Yuwen

From: Edi Weitz
Subject: Re: what does "#|" mean?
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 09:37:34 +0000
Message-ID: <87wugmyn4x.fsf@bird.agharta.de>

Dai Yuwen <·····@micetek.com.cn> writes:

> Hi, Dear all
> 
> I found these lines  in a lisp source file:
> 
> #|
> ;;; Example:
> (setq test
>        '((0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0)
>         (0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0)
>         (0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0)
>         (0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0)
>         (0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0)
>         (0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0)
>         (0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0)
>         (0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0)))
> 
> (life test)
> |#
> 
> ;;; *EOF*
> 
> It seems that "#|" and "|#" act like "/*" and "*/" in C , comment
> some codes?  But I guess "#" has more complicated meaning, doesn't
> it?

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  <http://www.lispworks.com/reference/HyperSpec/Body/02_dhs.htm>

Edi.