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.)


Function Foo(n) = 
    {Comments within a function are enclosed within curly brackets.}
    {You can make multi-line comments
        such as this one.}
    n:=n^2 + 3n - 222;   {Comments can go after a semicolon.}
    n:=n+1;
    n.
 
; comments between functions are preceded by semicolons, like this
 
Function Bar(n) =
    2n-1.