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   On 2/02/2025 6:39 pm, Anton Ertl wrote:   
   > dxf  writes:   
   >> On 1/02/2025 11:14 pm, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:   
   >>> { } is used for comment in Pascal.   
   >>   
   >> That's interesting.  When did that come in, and why, given the issues?   
   >   
   > Good question.  My memory is only of (* *), but indeed Section 6.1.8   
   > of https://www.standardpascal.org/iso7185.pdf makes it clear that (*   
   > and { can be used interchangeably, as well as *) and }.   
      
   Looking at a several online manuals and tutorials the rules re mixing,   
   single/multiple lines, nesting etc they all seem to vary.   
      
   When a comments proposal (Jonah Thomas?) was made on c.l.f it quickly   
   ran into the weeds too :)   
      
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