Meaning of flower box | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A container in which flowers or plants are grown, usually affixed outside just below a window.
2. A comment in source code that spans several lines, serving to introduce the source code that follows, and bordered by asterisks.

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Examples

“1988, Computer Partners, Inc, Handbook of COBOL techniques and programming standards To make this easier to do, set up an empty flower box and copy it into your program...”

“[…] you might have several lines of comments enclosed in a "flower box".”

“To end the flower box, type / to specify the end of a multiple line comment.”

“I then modified the code we had written earlier to include a flower box […]”

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