| Description |
A comment is a remark to the reader of the program, which the computer ignores. The most common form of comment in Turing starts with a percent sign (%) and continues to the end of the current line; this is called an end-of-line comment. There is also the bracketed comment, which begins with the /* and ends with */ and which can continue across line boundaries.
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| Example |
% This is an end-of-line comment
var x : real % Here is another end-of-line comment
const s := "Hello"
/* Here is a bracketed comment that
lasts for two lines */
const pi := 3.14159
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| Details |
In the BASIC language, comments are called remarks and start with the keyword REM. In Pascal, comments are bracketed by (* and *).
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