##### 9.44.2.1 Special Characters

‘`#`’ is the line comment character. If a ‘`#`’ appears as the first character of a line, the whole line is treated as a comment, but in this case the line can also be a logical line number directive (see Comments) or a preprocessor control command (see Preprocessing).

Two dashes (‘`--`’) can also be used to start a line comment.

The ‘`;`’ character can be used to separate statements on the same line.