TOPS-20 PASCAL Language Manual - Bitsavers

INTRODUCTION
Also, you can start a comment
character pair, ano end it
character pair, as follows:
(* This is also a comment *)
with
wi th
the
the
left-parenthesis/asterisk
asterisk/right-parenthesis
You can also mix the type of comment characters you use. For example,
you can use a left brace with an asterisk/right-parenthesis character
pair:
{ This is another comment *)
You can place a comment anywhere a space is legal.
comments are not delimiteo by semicolons.
Unlike statements,
A comment can contain any ASCII character because PASCAL ignores the
text of the comment.
NOTE
To turn off braces as recognized
comment characters, use the /NATIONAL
switch. See Section 8.4.3 for more
information on thjs switch.
1.5 THE %INCLUDE DIRECTIVE
The %INCLUDE directive allows you to ~ccess statements from a PASCAL
file, calJed the included file, during compilation of the current
file. The contents of the included file are inserted in the place
where the PASCAL compiler finds the directive. This directive can
appear anywhere in the PASCAL program.
Format
where:
%INCLUDE 'file specification
[{
/L IST }ll'
/NOLIST n
'file specification'
/LIST
/NOLIST
is the name of the file to be
The apostrophes are required.
included.
indicates that the included file is
be printed in the listing. This is
default.
to
the
indicates the included file is not to be
printed in the listing.
When the compiler finds the %INCLUDE directive, it stops reading from
the current file and begins reading from the included file. When the
compiler reaches the end of the included file, it resumes compilation
immediately following the %INCLUDE directive.
This directive can appear wherever a comment can appear. An included
file can contain any PASCAL declarations or statements. However, the
declarations in an included file, when combined with the other
declarations in the compilation, must follow the required order for
declarations.
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