# as comment

[Jonathan Larmour]

I notice that the GAS info files include this about '#' comments:
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   If the first non-whitespace characters on the line are not numeric,
the line is ignored.  (Just like a comment.)

                               # This is an ordinary comment.
     # 42-6 "new_file_name"    # New logical file name
                               # This is logical line # 36.
   This feature is deprecated, and may disappear from future versions
of `as'.
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Which is deprecated: the use of a numeric with a #, or # comments entirely?

Jifl
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