From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: steve@sk2.org (Stephen Kitt) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 20:36:47 +0200 Subject: [TUHS] Bourne shell and comments In-Reply-To: References: <20170418204834.GA22198@minnie.tuhs.org> <020a01d2b885$94bd49c0$be37dd40$@ronnatalie.com> Message-ID: <20170419203647.710e856a@heffalump.sk2.org> On Tue, 18 Apr 2017 15:45:36 -0600, Grant Taylor wrote: > On 04/18/2017 02:51 PM, Ron Natalie wrote: > > Was also the label for goto. > > Does that mean that the (so called) comment was really an (unused) label? Not Unix, but on DOS (on PCs) this was a common trick — it was especially appreciated because : as a comment prefix (often doubled, so it couldn’t be mistaken for a goto label) was faster to process than the official REM (which was a command which had to be executed). Regards, Stephen