<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Andreas, <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You wrote:</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="">How about "Exported Comments”?<br class=""><br class="">These are denoted using TWO consecutive asterisks after the opening bracket, for example (** this is an exported comment *). It signals to a browser that the comment should be included in a DEFINITION module being derived from the module being processed.</div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div></div><div>Yes, an extra * to mark a comment as 'exported comment' is indeed the only one that failed in the list of uses of the asterisk in Oberon that I collected! But I would hardly be surprised if someone finds an additional use case...</div><div><br class=""></div><div>The full list:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="" size="2"><span class="">1. integer multiplication operator</span><br class=""><span class="">2. real multiplication operator</span><br class=""><span class="">3. set intersection operator</span><br class=""><span class="">4. export mark</span><br class=""><span class="">5. interrupt procedure</span><br class=""><span class="">6. part of comment bracket</span><br class=""><span class="">7. stand-alone MODULE*</span><br class=""><span class="">8. wildcard character on the command line</span><br class=""><span class="">9. the star marker for a viewer</span></font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><span class="">10. * </span>in the parameter list of a command, </font><font face="Menlo" class="">meaning </font></font></div><div class=""><span class=""><font face="Menlo" size="2" class=""> "take input from the currently marked viewer"</font></span></div><div class=""><span class=""><font face="Menlo" class="" size="2">11. mark for exported comment</font></span></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="" size="2"><span class="">12. </span><font class="">M* denotes the hierarchy consisting of M itself </font></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="" size="2"> and of all directly and indirectly imported modules</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="" size="2"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">Happy Easter!</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">--</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">Hans</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></font></div></div></body></html>