7 Jan
2020
7 Jan
'20
9:24 p.m.
On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 5:51 PM Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
Funny; I recall ALGOL using "comment ... ;"
or was that ALGOLW (which I
loved using; I wish I still had my ALGOLW book)?
Algol-W From, the Sites book, (Page 10, Section 1 'Terminology) [Dave,
I'll send you the PDF offline].
The symbol *comment* followed by any sequence of characters not -containing
semicolons, followed by a semicolon, is called a *comment*. A comment has
no effect on the meaning of a program, and is ignored during execution of
the program.