Pep and Nom

comments in the ℕ𝕠𝕞 language syntax

Including comments in ℕ𝕠𝕞 scripts.

Both single line comments (line starting with “#"), or multiline” comments (#* .... #) are available.

multiline comments

Multi-line comments start with #* and end with # but they cannot be nested.

Multiline comments are useful for disabling blocks of code during script development, as well as for long comments at the beginning of a script.

Using multline comments to disable blocks of code is very much as “last resort* type of debugging technique. Better debugging techniques” are to use the parse-stack watch lines just after the parse> label or use the state command which shows the state of the pep machine at the time that the state command is issued.

See /doc/howto/nom.debug.html for more debugging ideas.

single line comments

These are the classic BASH PERL unixy comments where the line starts with a hash # character. There is not much more to say about them. The translation scripts actually translate ℕ𝕠𝕞 comments into the target language, but this is not terribly useful.