JuliaLang/julia — pull request #6128 by stevengj (2014-03-12 15:01:39+00:00)
Title: WIP: implement #{ ... }# multiline comments

This fixes #69, implementing `#{ ... }#` multiline comments.

(Several people had suggested `#= ... =#` instead, but `#{ ... }#` has the advantage of exploiting automatic editor brace matching out of the box. Pascal forever!)

It doesn't interact nicely with the REPL yet, because the REPL doesn't realize that `#{ ...` means that it should wait for more input. @loladiro, where is the end-of-input heuristic implemented in the REPL?

I haven't documented it yet, for the simple reason is that comment syntax is not currently documented anywhere in the Julia manual as far as I can tell, and I couldn't figure out what section it should go into.