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.)


/*
  Multi-line comment block
 */
 
-- this type of comment works in ooRexx, NetRexx and some of the more popular REXX implementations like Regina
 
hour = 0  -- which is, like midnight, dude.
 
hour = 12 /* time for lunch! works as well (and really everywhere) */
 
 