Comments
As a starting point, you should know how to make comments in your Pascal code. Object Pascal supports three types of comments: curly brace comments, parenthesis/asterisk comments, and double backslash comments. Examples of each type of comment follow:
{ Comment using curly braces }
(* Comment using paren and asterisk *)
// double backslash comment
The first two types of comments are virtually identical in behavior. The compiler considers the comment to be everything between the open-comment and close-comment delimiters. For double backslash comments, everything following the double backslash until the end of the line is considered a comment.
Note
You cannot nest comments of the same type. Although it is legal syntax to nest Pascal ...
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