>>>>> "DM" == Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:46:32 -0400 writes:
DM> Peter Danenberg wrote:
>>> The source references achieve something similar.
>>>
> Thanks, Duncan; it seems like SkipComment cannibalizes
>> comments before they get to srcref, though.
>>
>> I had to go back as far as 1999, actually, to find a
>> version of gram.y that implemented AddComment; would
>> anyone object to bringing it back?
>>
DM> Yes, I would.
and so would probably almost everyone in R-core.
We *did* think already back in the last millennium...
and removed them for a good reason
{IIRC, because there were always cases where they were attached
to the wrong expression, and we were more or less convinced,
there was no to do it "right" in all cases}.
Martin Maechler
DM> Use the source refs. They aren't
DM> "cannibalized", they are still there, where the source
DM> ref says they are.
DM> Duncan Murdoch
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