Opaque Line Comment

An entire line treated as an opaque comment, i.e. ignored in the final output and used solely to provide information to other contributors to the project.

Syntax

Any number of Unicode characters following the double slashes //, optionally preceded by a valid comment tag.

Overview

Notation	Conceptual AST	Paper Output
`//Tᶜᵟ 𝑆×𝑁`	`Comment(𝑆×𝑁, Tᵥᵟ, Line)`	—

𝑆 = any sign (Unicode character) ∉ STOP_SET (cf. Technical Catalogue of Symbols) otherwise preceded by the escape character \.
𝑁 = number of characters (represented by char or digits).
Tᶜᵟ = optional comment tag.
Tᵥᵟ = validated optional comment tag.

Examples

Notation	Paper Output
`//abc`

EpiDoc Outputs

Notation	EpiDoc (XML)
`//abc`	`<ab> </ab>`

Structural Analysis (Conceptual AST)

Notation	AST
`//abc`	`Comment(Line, None, "abc")`