The rest of the line, if any, should be whitespace. If the first non-whitespace characters on the line are not numeric, the line is ignored. This is an ordinary comment. This feature is deprecated, and may disappear from future versions of as . No symbol may begin with a digit.
Case is significant.
See section Symbols . The newline or at sign is considered part of the preceding statement. The newline or exclamation point is considered part of the preceding statement. The newline or separator character is considered part of the preceding statement. The newline or separator character is considered part of the preceding statement.