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Comments

To help keep programs readable, Darwin allows users to insert comments into their code. All text to the right of the pound symbol (#) up until the next return is ignored by the system.
> 2 ^ (2 ^ (2 ^ (2 ^ (2 ^ (2 ^ 2)))));           # A comment about the tower of 2s.
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Gaston Gonnet
1998-09-15