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Re: Suggestion for commenting brackets like /*...*/

In reply to your suggestion that simply /*...*/ be used as the commenting
brackets:
"It could be done... but it would be wrong."
It would be fairly kludgy to do that and yet have "/" retain its normal
meaning of quoting the next character.  Also, every program in the world
that parses LISP (like editors) would have to be changed.  The advantage
of #|...|# is that programs that parse MacLISP in a simple-minded way
would continue to work for that syntax also, more or less.