#### 9.51.2.1 Special Characters

Line comments are introduced either by the ‘`!`’ character or by the ‘`;`’ character appearing anywhere on a line.

A hash character (‘`#`’) as the first character on a line also marks the start of a line comment, but in this case it could also be a logical line number directive (see Comments) or a preprocessor control command (see Preprocessing).

The Visium assembler does not currently support a line separator character.