Task

Show all ways to include text in a language source file
that's completely ignored by the compiler or interpreter.



Related tasks

   Documentation
   Here_document


See also

   Wikipedia
   xkcd (Humor: hand gesture denoting // for "commenting out" people.)


 
#   Hashtag is a comment
--  Dash dash is another comment
//  Slash slash is yet another comment
—   Alt/Option + Underscore creates an m-dash comment
(*  Parentheses and star is used for commenting
blocks of code (* and can be nested *) *)
set foo to true // all comments can append to statements
 