flower box

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.

Equivalents

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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