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From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Use of { and } was Re: Back & Forth - Co-routines
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2025 07:39:26 GMT
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dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> writes:
>On 1/02/2025 11:14 pm, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:
>> { } is used for comment in Pascal.
>
>That's interesting.  When did that come in, and why, given the issues?

Good question.  My memory is only of (* *), but indeed Section 6.1.8
of https://www.standardpascal.org/iso7185.pdf makes it clear that (*
and { can be used interchangeably, as well as *) and }.

- anton
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