<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <!-- for emacs: -*- coding: utf-8 -*- --> <!-- Apache may like this line in the file .htaccess: AddCharset utf-8 .html --> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 plus MathML 2.0 plus SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/2002/04/xhtml-math-svg/xhtml-math-svg-flat.dtd" > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> <head><title>-- -- comment</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../../Macaulay2/Style/doc.css"/> </head> <body> <table class="buttons"> <tr> <td><div><a href="__gt_sp__Z__Z.html">next</a> | <a href="_-_sp__List.html">previous</a> | <a href="__gt_sp__Z__Z.html">forward</a> | <a href="_-_sp__List.html">backward</a> | up | <a href="index.html">top</a> | <a href="master.html">index</a> | <a href="toc.html">toc</a> | <a href="http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Macaulay2/">Macaulay2 web site</a></div> </td> </tr> </table> <hr/> <div><h1>-- -- comment</h1> <div>Use a double hyphen <tt>--</tt> to introduce a comment in the text of a program. The comment runs from to the end of the line.<p/> Emacs does a good job displaying the comments in a different color for visibility.<table class="examples"><tr><td><pre>i1 : x = 1 -- this is a comment o1 = 1</pre> </td></tr> </table> </div> </div> </body> </html>