Re: Comments between lines raise syntax error

On 2025-11-01 13:19, Karim Belabas wrote:
 > [...] I advise to use { ... } for complicated multi-line statements 
instead of a
 > line continuation \. The latter works best for a very small number of 
lines.
 > [...]
 >
 >   {
 >     level4 = [
 >     e4,
 >     /* Level 1 multiplied by Level 3 */
 >     z1*z5,
 >     z1*z6,
 >     z1*z7,
 >     /* Level 2 multiplied by itself */
 >     z2*z2,
 >     z2*z3,
 >     z3*z3
 >     ];
 >   }
 > [...]


As an alternative style, also consider:

   { my
     ( level4 =
       [ e4
         /* Level 1 multiplied by Level 3 */
       , z1 * z5
       , z1 * z6
       , z1 * z7
         /* Level 2 multiplied by itself */
       , z2 * z2
       , z2 * z3
       , z3 * z3
       ]
     );
   }

which (for me) works out very clean with many languages and 
version-control-systems.

Search on "leading comma format" and "comma first style" for more details.

-- Ruud

P.S. maybe call it "Hungarian punctuation" :)