A directive is a special type of explicit signature. Rather than generating output directly, directives affect the translation of other blocks of text or the operation/state of the translation engine.
Directives do not take modifiers, otherwise they look like explicit signatures.
Examples of directives:
See also this section of the Quick Reference and this section of the User Guide.
directives A _directive_ is a special type of explicit signature. Rather than generating output directly, directives affect the translation of other blocks of text or the operation/state of the translation engine. Directives do not take modifiers, otherwise they look like explicit signatures. Examples of directives: * define. * undef. * ifdef. * include. See also "this section of the Quick Reference":../../../../Reference/quickref.html#directives and "this section of the User Guide":../../../../Reference/guide/directives.html.
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