title: Any way to embed a comment within a Tcl command?
body: <p>I would like to have a comment within a command and it appears that this is not possible given that the '#' character is defined in Tcl 8.4 to be:</p>
  
  <p>If a hash character (``#'') appears at a point where Tcl is expecting the first character of the first word of a command, then the hash character and the characters that follow it, up through the next newline, are treated as a comment and ignored. The comment character only has significance when it appears at the beginning of a command.</p>
  
  <p>Imagine this example of how this might work (none of these comments worked in my experiments):</p>
  
  <pre><code>array set myArray [list red 3        \
                          blue 4       ;# Blue is before purple.
                          purple 5     # Purple is after red.
                          green 7      \
                          yellow 8]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Seems the tricky part is how to continue the list command with a comment embedded?  Perhaps something like the C++ style of /* Embedded comment here. */ but I only see # as being used in Tcl for comments to end of line, nothing for begin and end comment syntax.</p>