Comments can be indicated by the conventional C comments of <code>//</code> or <code>/**/</code>. For example, any text between <code>/*</code> and <code>*/</code> is ignored.
Whitespace is not significant. There is no difference between the following commands.
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<li>
no whitespace
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app.wikis.get('en.wikipedia.org');
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<li>
multiple spaces (ASCII 32)
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</ul>
<pre>
app . wikis . get ( 'en.wikipedia.org' ) ;
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<li>
spaces and new lines (ASCII 32 and ASCII 10)
</li>
</ul>
<pre>
app
. wikis
. get ( 'en.wikipedia.org' )
;
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<p>
Note that tabs (ASCII 9) and carriage returns (ASCII 13) are permitted but not recommended.
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<spanclass="mw-headline"id="Quotes">Quotes</span>
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Strings should be quoted. Quote characters are the apostrophe (<code>'</code>) or the quote (<code>"</code>). Note that <code>'</code> is often used.
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<li>
A special quote sequence of <code>&lt:['\n</code> and <code>\n}':]></code> is used to handle text with significant delimiters
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</ul>
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<dd>
For example, the following is identical to <code>app.wikis.get('en.wikipedia.org');</code>
</dd>
</dl>
<pre>
app.wikis.get(
<:['
en.wikipedia.org
']:>
);
</pre>
<dl>
<dd>
Note that this quote sequence allows processing a mixture of various syntax forms without escaping. This is especially useful for wiki text which can have elements of HTML and significant other symbols.
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