Any bytes on a line after a line-comment sequence (// or
#) are ignored up until the ASCII newline character
(\n). They may thus be written in any character encoding which
is convenient.
Any content after a block comment open sequence in ASCII (/*)
up to the closing block comment (*/) is ignored, and thus may
also be written in whatever character set is convenient.
1.2 Comment Characters
Any bytes on a line after a line-comment sequence (
//
or#
) are ignored up until the ASCII newline character (\n
). They may thus be written in any character encoding which is convenient.Any content after a block comment open sequence in ASCII (
/*
) up to the closing block comment (*/
) is ignored, and thus may also be written in whatever character set is convenient.