Jeff writes, following Tracy's comments on comments:

> > comment   if !_displayed > 0
>  > Variable name not found in variable table. (CIWARN 8101)
>
>  The CI resolves variable names *before* it even knows what the command
>  is.  That allows this kind of dynamic structure to work:
>
>    setvar x "#"
>    !x foo fum fie
>    !x there is more to do...   # simple comments here
>
>  Now if you setvar x to "echo", you get output from the above.

Nonetheless, you can easily argue that this construct, if left as it is, is a
design error. Comments should never be handed off to a
parser/interpreter/compiler.

Wirt Atmar

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