From hb at stat.berkeley.edu  Wed Sep 22 08:26:31 2010
From: hb at stat.berkeley.edu (Henrik Bengtsson)
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 23:26:31 -0700
Subject: [Rd] OT: Reason/history behind ## notation for comments?
Message-ID: <AANLkTimRgeGVxira9GzJoBfPSyWKYxBcbD1TALXzFYd9@mail.gmail.com>

Off topic, but since I've observe both styles, does anyone know the
history behind/reason for using ## instead of a single # to start
comments in R.  I know some editors do this by default.  Is it because
in C it is easier to distinguish (search/replace/...) comments from C
preprocessor directives such as #include, and that's became a de facto
standard elsewhere?

/Henrik

PS. I don't want to get into a debate on what's the best style.



[Rd] OT: Reason/history behind ## notation for comments?
Henrik Bengtsson