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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 12:18:39 -0700
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On 10/13/2013 10:02 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 20:13:32 -0700, Tim Roberts wrote:
>
>> def add(c1, c2):
>>       % Decode
>>       c1 = ord(c1) - 65
>>       c2 = ord(c2) - 65
>>       % Process
>>       i1 = (c1 + c2) % 26
>>       % Encode
>>       return chr(i1+65)
> Python uses # for comments, not %, as I'm sure you know. What language
> were you thinking off when you wrote the above?
>
>
>
IIRC Lisp uses % for comments, but it may need to be doubled.  (It's 
been doubled in the examples I've seen, and I don't remember the syntax.)
Perhaps Scheme has the same convention, but Scheme could be considered a 
part of the Lisp clade.

-- 
Charles Hixson