COMMENTS.md

Comments

Supported styles:

Start-of-Line Comments

#  Comment here
## Comment here

Used by: Shell, Ruby, Git (Config), Java Properties (?) - Others ???

-- Comment here

Used by: SQL (?), Ada (?), Haskell ? - Others

; Comment here

Used by: Git (Config), Windows INI (?) - Others

%% Comment here

Used by: TeX, LaTeX (?)

More candidates:

// Comment here

Used by: C++, C#, JavaScript (?), Java (?)

/*  */

Used by: C, CSS, Java, JavaScript (?)

____________________

All Underscores

Multi-Line Blocks

__END__

Used by: Ruby

__BEGIN__
__END__

Used by: Ruby

End-of-Line Comments

Check:

• Must have leading space? Why? Why not?
• Must have trailing space? Why? Why not?

e.g.

data data data _#_ comment here   -- will not include #1 or Object#blank?
data data data _--_ comment here

Inline (Embedded) Comments

How to comment out a block inside a line? Use

{# }
or
{# #}

Why? Why not?