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NB. Text that follows 'NB.' has no effect on execution.
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'Character strings in J may have their value be ignored and treated as comment text.'
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0 : 0
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Multi-line comments may be placed in strings,
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like this.
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)
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Note 'example'
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Another way to record multi-line comments as text is to use 'Note', which is actually
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a simple program that makes it clearer when defined text is used only to provide comment.
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)
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{{)n
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J release 9's nestable blocks can be used as comments.
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Typically, this would be in contexts where the blocks would not be used.
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That said, "literate coding practices" may stretch the boundaries here.
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Also, noun blocks (beginning with ')n') avoid syntactic concerns about content.
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These blocks even allow contained '}}' sequences to be ignored (unless, of
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course the }} character pair appears at the beginning of a line).
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}}
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