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1 9.7.2.1 Special Characters
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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 the '#' appears as the first
1 character of a line, the whole line is treated as a comment, but in this
11 case the line can also be a logical line number directive (⇒
 Comments) or a preprocessor control command (⇒Preprocessing).
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1    The ';' character can be used to separate statements on the same
1 line.
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