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--- alternative_20comment_20styles [2018/04/14 06:47] – svein
+++ alternative_20comment_20styles [2024/01/05 00:22] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1
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 =====Alternative comment styles=====
-//by Richard Russell, May 2010//\\ \\  There are three main ways of incorporating multi-line comments (remarks) in your program:\\ \\
+//by Richard Russell, May 2010//\\ \\  There are three main ways of incorporating multi-line comments (remarks) in your program:
 ==== Using the REM statement ====
 <code bb4w>
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         REM This is comment line three
 </code>
-Comments of this kind will be automatically removed from a 'compiled' program if the **Remove REMs** crunch option is selected. Therefore you can add as many comments as you like without affecting the size or performance of the executable program\\ \\
+Comments of this kind will be automatically removed from a 'compiled' program if the **Remove REMs** crunch option is selected. Therefore you can add as many comments as you like without affecting the size or performance of the executable program
 ==== Using the *| command ====
+<code bb4w>
         *| This is comment line one
         *| This is comment line two
         *| This is comment line three
-Comments of this kind are preserved, irrespective of the crunch options. They are useful if, for example, you want to include a comment in a 'crunched' library.\\ \\
+</code>
+Comments of this kind are preserved, irrespective of the crunch options. They are useful if, for example, you want to include a comment in a 'crunched' library.
 ==== Using line continuation characters ====
+<code bb4w>
         :\
         \\ This is comment line one
@@ Line 20: / Line 26: @@
         \\ This is comment line three
         \:
+</code>
 Comments of this kind are automatically deleted from a 'compiled' program if **any** of the crunch options is selected.