You
can add a comment to any line of an SPL routine, even a blank line.
To
add a comment, use any of the following comment notation styles:
Place a double hyphen ( -- ) at the left of the
comment.
Enclose the comment text between a pair of braces ( { .. .} ).
Delimit the comment between C-style "slash and asterisk" comment
indicators ( /* .. .*/).
To add a multiple-line comment, take one of the following
actions:
Place a double hyphen before each line of the comment
Enclose the entire comment within the pair of braces.
Place /* at the left of the first line of the
comment, and place */ at the end of the last line
of the comment.
Braces as comment indicators are Informix® an
extension to the ANSI/ISO standard for the SQL language. All three
comment styles are also valid in SPL routines.
If you use braces
or C-style comment indicators to delimit the text of a comment, the
opening indicator must be in the same style as the closing indicator.
All
the examples in the following figure are valid comments. Figure 1: Valid comment
examples.
SELECT * FROM customer -- Selects all columns and rows
SELECT * FROM customer
-- Selects all columns and rows
-- from the customer table
SELECT * FROM customer
{ Selects all columns and rows
from the customer table }
SELECT * FROM customer
/* Selects all columns and rows
from the customer table */
Important: Braces ( { } ) can be used to delimit
comments and also to delimit the list of elements in a collection.
To ensure that the parser correctly recognizes the end of a comment
or list of elements in a collection, use the double hyphen ( -- )
for comments in an SPL routine that handles collection data types.