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Use of Comments

The compiler ignores ASN.1 comments that are not interpreted as implementation specific directives. It accepts Mapping Services directives, for manipulating the local form data, embedded in ASN.1 comments that start with the sequence (--<) and terminate with the sequence (>--). The Mapping Services directive start sequence must be explicitly terminated with the end sequence:

--< directive1,directive2,...,directiven >--

The allowable directives, and where they can appear in the module source, are explained in more detail later.