How to ignore / comment out next LFE form?

[mwgkgk]

Here's #+nil method of commenting out Common Lisp forms discussed at StackOverflow:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29849954/common-lisp-what-does-nil

I'm looking for a way to discard / comment out, a form. I'm using these commented out forms as temporary shelves for evaluated snippets. What would be a clever way to discard a form without reading?

Clojure has (comment ...) which also addresses this problem, as well as #_( ... ). Is there a cute way to do this without having to define/import "comment" macro in every file?

Thank you and love the website update

[Duncan McGreggor]

I don't think we have form-specific commenting (Robert will know, of course).

LFE does support multi-line comments a la CL, but I understand that's not what you're looking for.

You could define your own macro, and (include-lib ...) it whenever you needed to do this? Pondering naïvly, maybe something like (defmacro /*...) where the entire body was discarded might work?

d

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[Robert Virding]

No we don't have a (comment ...) form. Now you would have to use a multiline comment #| ... |#  or do as Duncan suggested. Or just comment with ;;

Robert