Comment. Character substitution.

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While tokens are read, the compiler does front-end processing on a text, i.e some characters are substituted and comments are ignored.

/*...*/ Comments can appear anywhere. A comment begins with a forward slash/asterisk combination /* and is terminated by “end comment” delimiter */.
//... Single-line comments. These comments are terminated by the End-of-Line characters.
; is replaced with the End-of-Line characters.
: is replaced with the first left brace, but the first End-of-Line characters, which follow a colon, are replaced with the closing right brace.
$name a macro name with a dollar sign $ is replaced with its value.

/*
 This is a comment.
*/
// This is a comment too.

a = b + c; c = d + e 
//after processing it looks like this:
a = b + c
c = d + e

if a == 10 : a++
//after processing it looks like this:
if a == 10 { a++ }

See also

Macros

*/.../*	Comments can appear anywhere. A comment begins with a forward slash/asterisk combination /* and is terminated by “end comment” delimiter */.
//...	Single-line comments. These comments are terminated by the End-of-Line characters.
;	is replaced with the End-of-Line characters.
:	is replaced with the first left brace, but the first End-of-Line characters, which follow a colon, are replaced with the closing right brace.
$name	a macro name with a dollar sign $ is replaced with its value.