1 1 9.40.2 Special Characters 1 ------------------------- 1 1 '#' is the line comment character. 1 1 If a '#' appears as the first character of a line then the whole line 1 is treated as a comment, but in this case the line could also be a 1 logical line number directive (⇒Comments) or a preprocessor 1 control command (⇒Preprocessing). 1 1 The ';' character can be used instead of a newline to separate 1 statements. 1