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Task/Comments/Asymptote/comments.asymptote

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+// double slash to newline

Task/Comments/BASIC/comments-1.basic

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+100 ' Standard BASIC comments begin with "REM" (remark) and extend to the end of the line
+110 PRINT "this is code": REM comment after statement

Task/Comments/BASIC/comments-2.basic

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+ 'this is a comment
+ PRINT "this is code"  'comment after statement

Task/Comments/COBOL/comments-2.cobol

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-*> This comment syntax was defined in COBOL 2002.
+      D    DISPLAY "Debug"

Task/Comments/COBOL/comments-3.cobol

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+*> This comment syntax was defined (with free format code) in COBOL 2002.

Task/Comments/COBOL/comments-4.cobol

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+>>D DISPLAY "Debug"

Task/Comments/COBOL/comments-5.cobol

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+           NOTE this paragraph is
+               commented out and ignored
+           .

Task/Comments/Chapel/comments.chapel

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+// single line
+
+/* multi
+line */

Task/Comments/ColdFusion/comments-1.cfm

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-As ColdFusion's grammar is based around HTML syntax, commenting is similar to HTML.  Note that in the examples below, you will need to remove the space between the < and the !.
-< !--- This is a comment.  Nothing in this tag can be seen by the end user.
+As ColdFusion's grammar is based around HTML syntax, commenting is similar to HTML.
+<!--- This is a comment.  Nothing in this tag can be seen by the end user.
        Note the three-or-greater dashes to open and close the tag. --->
-< !--  This is an HTML comment.  Any HTML between the opening and closing of the tag will be ignored, but any ColdFusion code will still run.
+<!--  This is an HTML comment.  Any HTML between the opening and closing of the tag will be ignored, but any ColdFusion code will still run.
        Note that in the popular FuseBox framework for ColdFusion, the circuit.xml files require that you use this style of comment. -->

Task/Comments/Component-Pascal/comments.component

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+(* Comments (* can nest *)
+   and they can span multiple lines.
+ *)

Task/Comments/D/comments.d

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+void main() {
+    // A single line comment.
+
+    /* This is a simple C-style comment that can't be nested.
+    Comments mostly work similar to C, newlines are irrelevant.
+    */
+
+    /+ This is a nestable comment
+      /+ See?
+      +/
+    +/
+
+    /// Documentation single line comment.
+
+    /**
+    Simple C-style documentation comment.
+    */
+
+    /++
+    Nestable documenttion comment.
+    +/
+}

Task/Comments/Dylan/comments.dylan

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+// This is a comment
+
+/*
+   This is a comment
+   that spans multiple
+   lines
+*/

Task/Comments/Java/comments-6.java

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+public class JustComments {
+    /*
+    \u002A\u002F\u0070\u0075\u0062\u006C\u0069\u0063\u0020\u0073\u0074\u0061\u0074\u0069\u0063
+    \u0020\u0076\u006F\u0069\u0064\u0020\u006D\u0061\u0069\u006E\u0028
+    \u0053\u0074\u0072\u0069\u006E\u0067\u005B\u005D\u0061\u0072\u0067\u0073\u0029
+    \u007B\u0053\u0079\u0073\u0074\u0065\u006D\u002E\u006F\u0075\u0074\u002E
+    \u0070\u0072\u0069\u006E\u0074\u006C\u006E\u0028\u0022\u0048\u0065\u006C\u006C\u006F\u0022
+    \u002B\u0022\u0020\u0057\u006F\u0072\u006C\u0064\u0021\u0022\u0029\u003B\u007D\u002F\u002A
+    */
+}

Task/Comments/M4/comments-1.m4

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+eval(2*3)  # eval(2*3)  "#" and text after it aren't processed but passed along
+
+dnl  this text completely disappears, including the new line
+
+divert(-1)
+Everything diverted to -1 is processed but the output is discarded.
+A comment could take this form as long as no macro names are used.
+divert

Task/Comments/M4/comments-2.m4

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+some text`'dnl then a deleted comment

Task/Comments/M4/comments-3.m4

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+changecom(%)
+% now percent prevents macro expansion

Task/Comments/M4/comments-4.m4

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+changecom()
+GNU m4 now no macro expansion suppression character at all

Task/Comments/M4/comments-5.m4

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+changecom(/*,*/)
+/* GNU m4 now no macro expansion in C style comments */

Task/Comments/Python/comments-1.py

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-"""Un-assigned strings in triple-quotes might be used
-   as multi-line comments
-"""
-
-'''
-   "triple quoted strings" can be delimited by either 'single' or "double" quote marks; and they can contain mixtures
-   of other quote marks without any need to \escape\ them using any special characters.  They also may span multiple
-   lines without special escape characters.
-'''
+# This is a comment
+foo = 5 # You can also append comments to statements

Task/Comments/Python/comments-2.py

@@ -1,17 +1,9 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
-# Example of using doc strings
-"""My Doc-string example"""
+"""Un-assigned strings in triple-quotes might be used
+   as multi-line comments
+"""
 
-class Foo:
-     '''Some documentation for the Foo class'''
-     def __init__(self):
-        "Foo's initialization method's documentation"
-
-def bar():
-    """documentation for the bar function"""
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    print (__doc__)
-    print (Foo.__doc__)
-    print (Foo.__init__.__doc__)
-    print (bar.__doc__)
+'''
+   "triple quoted strings" can be delimited by either 'single' or "double" quote marks; and they can contain mixtures
+   of other quote marks without any need to \escape\ them using any special characters.  They also may span multiple
+   lines without special escape characters.
+'''

Task/Comments/Python/comments-3.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# Example of using doc strings
+"""My Doc-string example"""
+
+class Foo:
+     '''Some documentation for the Foo class'''
+     def __init__(self):
+        "Foo's initialization method's documentation"
+
+def bar():
+    """documentation for the bar function"""
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    print (__doc__)
+    print (Foo.__doc__)
+    print (Foo.__init__.__doc__)
+    print (bar.__doc__)

Task/Comments/REXX/comments-1.rexx

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ via a continued line, as in the manner of:
            'would I be wearing this one?' ,
            '      --- Abraham Lincoln'
 
-Here come's the thingy that ends this REXX comment. ───┐
+ Here comes the thingy that ends this REXX comment. ───┐
                                                        │
                                                        │
                                                        ↓

Task/Comments/REXX/comments-2.rexx

@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
 -- A REXX line comment
-
 say "something" -- another line comment