1 1 9.1.3.1 Special Characters 1 .......................... 1 1 The presence of a '//' on a line indicates the start of a comment that 1 extends to the end of the current line. If a '#' appears as the first 1 character of a line, the whole line is treated as a comment. 1 1 The ';' character can be used instead of a newline to separate 1 statements. 1 1 The '#' can be optionally used to indicate immediate operands. 1