various improvements

[rrq/rrqforth.git] / adoc / p_read_word.adoc

diff --git a/adoc/p_read_word.adoc b/adoc/p_read_word.adoc
index 76bb0e60789c9c8c826559616d6e28bfb42ba587..95baa767f5abe960d66ad6c15073c3889977b594 100644 (file)
--- a/adoc/p_read_word.adoc
+++ b/adoc/p_read_word.adoc
@@ -13,3 +13,17 @@ cell pointer for it. The characters of the word are copied to
 <<p_pad,PAD>>, and there is a limit of 1024 characters.
 
 At the end of the stream READ-WORD returns 0 length.
+
+.Whitespace
+[caption='Special syntax {counter:syntax}: ']
+====
+All character codes less or equal to 32 are regarded as "whitespace".
+====
+
+.Rest-of-line comment
+[caption='Special syntax {counter:syntax}: ']
+====
+The "#" character following whitespace starts a line comment and the
+rest of the line is ignored. Note that this is also recognised with
+<<p_lparen,parethesis commenting>>.
+====