SB: Somebody care to explain why this search give so many hits?

http://mini.net/tcl/2?if+0+{*

[NEM] - It's used a lot in pages which are mostly code. By surrounding the non-code explanation parts in
if 0 {

This is some explanation

}

Then the whole page can be copied and pasted into a tclsh/wish/tkcon without the explanation bits causing an error. It's just a way of doing block commenting.

''[escargo] 16 Mar 2003'' - Isn't part of the point of this construct that no bytecodes get
generated for any of the text included inside the curly braces? This removes any runtime
penalty for including useful info (however structured) inside those braces?