--- gforth/glocals.fs	1998/10/14 22:23:12	1.37
+++ gforth/glocals.fs	1999/03/23 20:24:18	1.40
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 \ A powerful locals implementation
 
-\ Copyright (C) 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+\ Copyright (C) 1995,1996,1997,1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 \ This file is part of Gforth.
 
@@ -292,8 +292,19 @@ locals-types definitions
 	postpone laddr# @ lp-offset, ;
 
 \ you may want to make comments in a locals definitions group:
-' \ alias \ immediate
-' ( alias ( immediate
+' \ alias \ ( -- ) \ core-ext,block-ext backslash
+\G Line comment: if @code{BLK} contains 0, parse and discard the remainder
+\G of the parse area. Otherwise, parse and discard all subsequent characters in the
+\G parse area corresponding to the current line.
+immediate 
+
+' ( alias ( ( compilation 'ccc<close-paren>' -- ; run-time -- ) \ core,file	paren
+\G Comment: parse and discard all subsequent characters in the parse
+\G area until "@code{)}" is encountered. During interactive input, an end-of-line
+\G also acts as a comment terminator. For file input, it does not; if the
+\G end-of-file is encountered whilst parsing for the "@code{)}" delimiter, Gforth
+\G will generate a warning.
+immediate
 
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