2.6 Comments

Text can be included in program listings for the convenience of human readers, in such a way that REDUCE pays no attention to it. There are three ways to do this:

1.

Everything from the word comment to the next statement terminator, normally ; or $, is ignored. Such comments can be placed anywhere a blank could properly appear. (Note that end and >> are not treated as comment delimiters!)

2.

Everything from the symbol % to the end of the line on which it appears is ignored. Such comments can be placed as the last part of any line. Statement terminators have no special meaning in such comments. Remember to put a semicolon before the % if the earlier part of the line is intended to be so terminated. Remember also to begin each line of a multi-line % comment with a % sign.

3.

C-style inline comments: everything from /* to */ is ignored.

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