parsing comments in scripts

[Dar Scott]

On Dec 10, 2004, at 12:26 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote:

> Unfortunately, it appears that token DOES include the C-style comment 
> delimiters recently introduced, and they can be multi-line, so you'll 
> need to do something more to deal with that.

I missed most of this.  I'll just throw in this comment to consider in 
parsing:

/* */ style comments form intra-command whitespace, not inter-command 
whitespace; they cannot take the place of a ; or a lf, even if they 
include a lf.

Dar
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