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Ah, I see, so the problem is not a semicolon "used in comments", it's a semicolon used outside them. But then which character would you suggest instead? The article notes that there is the same problem with # (e.g. in `black = #000000`) and // (`url = https://en.wikipedia.com`). And these are arguably more common.


What about three simple rules to define comments:

1. If # is in the first column of the line.

2. If # is followed by a space.

3. The # only starts a comment when it’s outside of quotes.




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