Ignoring a list.

[David C. Plummer <DCP@SCRC-QUABBIN.ARPA>]

    Date: 19 Mar 86 09:14:00 EST
    From: "BACH::GREEK" <greek%bach.decnet@hudson.dec.com>

    I agree with Scott that this is a fairly absurd discussion (I don't,
    however, agree with his editorial comment about FORMAT, which is moaned
    about all over but never with an alternative suggestion. [This is not
    an editorial comment, of course]).

    In the time we've all spent writing about some method of ignoring one
    list, we could all have typed many #| ... |# constructs.

That's true.  The thing we are dicussing is that you can type 3 or 4
times as many #;, #+IGNORE's, #+++IGNORE's, etc, than you can type
#|...|#.  This is because #|...|# requires hacking two places in the
text (before and after the expression).  Removing a #+IGNORE to
reinstate code is similarly easier than removing the #| |# pair.