TACL Reference Manual

Lexical Elements
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Comments
processes as such all subsequent lines of text until it encounters a right
bracket.
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If the text contains braces, the rules for that form of comment also apply.
Comment text is terminated by the end of the command line unless you continue
the line with the line continuation character (&):
COMMENT This is == a valid }{ comment
COMMENT This is also a valid comment &
that is carried over to the next line
COMMENT {This {thing} is an invalid comment}
In all forms of comments, comment text is optional. TACL does not support nested
comments.