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Does anyone know if you can put Comments in a script?

To clarify, I don't mean the comments people leave on stories. I mean, when writing your script, can you write a line that is ignored by the game engine, so you can leave yourself notes. For example, if typing '//' signified a comments line, you might have something like:

// change the player's hit points
%HP := %HP + 1
// now tell the player how many hit points they have
$PAGETEXT := "You have " + %HP + " hit points"

In really long or complicated programs, comments help to remind the writer what parts of the script is about, or to seperate parts of the script into categories. IE,

//page text if it is day time goes here
$PAGETEXT := "blah blah blah"

//page text if it is night time goes here
$PAGETEXT := "blah blah blah"

So, any scripters, do you know if scripting comments can be done? And what you have to type to signify a comment? Probably need AlexP or Solo to answer this, I guess... Haven't seen either in a while...

I recall talking to Alex about this

I think not, but I can't remember - was a loong time ago.

Cool!!

LOL!!! woot! my forum post did come in handy... though not in the way that i had expected :P

#The following script is the 'appreciation' script

%OCTOBER := %AWESOME

%SOLOSTRIKE := %AWESOME

$PAGETEXT := "This is awesome! I never saw that post before. Comments!!!! Now I can add headings and stuff inside my scripts so that I remember what I was doing! Great job guys!"