Comments

Programmer comments used to document PPFA command streams are allowed anywhere within the command stream. Comments must be enclosed with the delimiters ⁄* and *⁄. A comment is allowed anywhere a blank is allowed and can continue for any number of lines.

Note: For VSE, however, a comment must not start at the beginning of the line. As the first two bytes of a record in PPFA running under VSE, ⁄* is interpreted as the end of system input.

The following example shows the available variations in comment formats: 

FIELD /* comment */ FONT GT10 /* comment,
  multiline comment,
  more comment */ START * + 10  LENGTH 5 ;
FIELD LENGTH 10 ; FIELD START * + 10  LENGTH 15 ;
    Note:
  1. A comment must end with the closing delimiter (*⁄).
  2. Double-byte character codes in comments must be enclosed within SO (X'0E') and SI (X'0F') on EBCDIC platforms.

Parent topic: Rules for Creating a PPFA Command Stream