Is it better to use .* or .CM for comments?

Question

Is it better to use .* or .CM for comments?

Answer

  I think .* is easier to identify as a commented line.

  The .CM control word is scanned for control word separators and hence could
  use more machine resource. The .* convention is not scanned.

  In the following example:

       .cm this is; more text

  more text would show up in your document.

Last updated: 93/08/04 14:02:06

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