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Directives are commands to the interpreter or compiler. Their behavior is
implementation-dependent; implementations may simply ignore them.
A directive is a string beginning with `#
' and
ending with `.
'. Directives may occupy multiple lines. The first
non-whitespace character on a line containing a directive must be the
leading `#
', and the last non-whitespace character on the line ending
the directive must be the terminating `.
'.
James Cheney
2003-10-23