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Footnote 4 [0] discusses the struggles of formatting comments. This was interesting to me because back in December I wrote most of a code formatter for Lox, the toy language from Crafting Interpreters [1], but I never finished it because I got caught up on how exactly to handle and represent comments, and then I got distracted by other projects. Does anyone else have thoughts on how to handle comments in a code formatter?

Edit: Well, apparently this blog post (from 2015) is by the author of Crafting Interpreters. That makes this more interesting to me.

[0]: http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/09/08/the-hardest-pro...

[1]: https://craftinginterpreters.com



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