Re: Comments between lines raise syntax error

["Ruud H.G. van Tol" <rvtol@isolution.nl>]

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" :)