The comment-entry in any of the optional paragraphs may be any combination of characters from the character set of the computer. Do not confuse the comment-entry with a comment line. (The latter is indicated by a slash or asterisk in the indicator area.) The comment-entry is written in Area B on one or more lines. The SEU Syntax Checker, however, requires that the first sentence begin on the same line as the paragraph header.
Comment-entries serve only as documentation; they do not affect the meaning of the program. A hyphen in the indicator area (column 7) is not permitted in comment-entries.
The paragraph name DATE-COMPILED and any comment-entry associated with it are replaced during compilation with a paragraph of the form:
DATE-COMPILED. current date.
The first eight lines of the comment-entry in the SECURITY paragraph will form the copyright information in the created module object.
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A comment-entry may contain the *CBL, *CONTROL, EJECT, SKIP1, SKIP2, SKIP3, or TITLE statements anywhere on the line. These statements will be acted on if they are alone on a line within the comment-entry, and they will not terminate the comment-entry.
Comments may combine double-byte and single-byte character-strings. Multiple lines are allowed in a comment-entry containing double-byte strings, however shift-out and shift-in characters must be paired in a line.
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