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by ngrilly 3728 days ago
It looks like we agree Go has "special comments", not "executable comments".

I recognise that Go' special comments can be seen as a hack, but honestly they are not so different from Rust's attributes or Haskell's pragmas, which can look clunky too.

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No way. Comments are comments, attributes are attributes. Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9522973
Bingo.