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Re:The Birth of Tcl by mdaniel on Thursday April 21, 2022 @05:00PM (#31115115)
Line comments since the "#" isn't a comment character unless it's following a statement or such nonsense

    puts "for real" ;# orly?
https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/comment

and there's some weird business about backslashes in comment characters, which IIRC "modern" tcl-ists use for ployglot launch scripts

    #!/bin/sh
    # this hides *both* lines from tclsh \
    exec "tclsh" "$0" "$@"
    puts "and now, moar tcl"
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Re:The Birth of Tcl by sigzero on Thursday April 21, 2022 @05:21PM (#31115351)
Wow, I comment on that page way back in 2006! I suggested a multi-line comment. lol

I don't use end of line comments myself so that never bugged me.

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