Comments in .db files
Pavel Curtis (pavel@parc.xerox.com)
Wed, 28 Feb 1996 15:15:11 PST
Seth I. Rich writes:
> Somewhere in the back of my head I recall reading that comments may be
> inserted into verb code with /* markers */. Unlike comments inserted as
> strings, these will be entirely ignored and not even saved in the
> database. Is it kosher to insert such comments into the .db file
> directly? Will they be ignored? In what parts of the file, if any?
They are completely ignored during parsing of MOO code and not represented in
the parsed/compiled form at all. You should only put them into MOO verb code
within the DB file.
Pavel