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Re: comment block curiosity

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From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: comment block curiosity
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2021 09:36:48 -0800
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On 2021-01-03 9:26 a.m., Bart Schaefer wrote:

On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 9:10 AM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

     alias startcomment=': <<COMMENTBLOCK'
     alias endcomment='COMMENTBLOCK'

You're overthinking this a bit, Ray.

That happens :)


Aliases do not expand inside here-documents.  Even if they did, the
ending delimiter must be found literally.

Ah! I hate to say 'that's clear' but it's a no brainer that while I'mexplicitly in a comment , alias expansion is ineffective! I should haveknown that. Ok, just tinkering where angels fear to tread, it wasn'timportant. Comment blocks would be cool tho. Howbout:


#{#
foo
bar
baz
#}#

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