A question about Interlisp comment usage.

[RyanBurnside]

Sometimes I notice that Interlisp doesn’t care for comments in some forms. For example, between the items of a LET. Are comments not dropped on eval?

Since newcomers may read this, I'm referring to Interlisp comments being (* my comment here)

Also I noticed that CL style comments get converted too into the form (* ;; "Some odd stringy thingy") . This seems to be hinting it's OK to use them. SEdit handles their indentation to cultural spec.

For example:

(LET ((foo 42) (* This is used for frobulation.)
      (bar 43))
   (CONS foo bar))
> Unknown symbol This

[pamoroso]

According to the IRM:

Therefore, comments should only be placed where they will not harm the computation, i.e., where a quoted expression could be placed.

[masinter]

There's a processing step in a "definer" (defun, defmacro, defvar, ...) where it calls il:remove-comments to strip out all of the Interlisp-style comments. I thought I saw something about giving semicolon ';' a readtable that would turn commonlisp style comments (rest of line after ';') into Interlisp ones. Is this in the lyric release notes?