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0.9.1.8. Plain text in your code
In Knuth's WEB, you can refer to code-things in the text parts of the
document/program and to text-things in your code. (As I recall,
putting `|' around text switches it to
whatever-you're-not-doing-now (code or text)).
We have the first (the `@...@' shorthand to refer to code things
while in text), but not the second: what's in a code environment is
code just like you would see in an illiterate program in the same
language.
I guess the right solution is to have specially-marked comments
(again, language-dependent) that say, "Don't treat this as just a
comment in this programming language, but extract it and
mangle/massage it as if it were literate-document text."
A pain to implement. Not worth it?