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#### 4.2.14 COMMENT Objects

The COMMENT object is a mechanism for encoding arbitrary data within an OOGL object. It can be used to keep track of data or pass data back and forth between external modules.

Syntax:

         COMMENT                 # key word

         name type   # individual name and type specifier
         { ... }             # arbitrary data

The data, which must be enclosed by curly braces, can include anything except unbalanced curly braces. The type field can be used to identify data of interest to a particular program through naming conventions.

`COMMENT` objects are intended to be associated with other objects through inclusion in a `LIST` object. (See LIST.) The "#" OOGL comment syntax does not suffice for data exchange since these comments are stripped when an OOGL object is read in to Geomview. The `COMMENT` object is preserved when loaded into Geomview and is written out intact.

Here is an example associating a WorldWide Web URL with a piece of geometry:

         { LIST
          { < Tetrahedron}
          {COMMENT GCHomepage HREF { http://www.geomview.org/ }}
         }

A binary `COMMENT` format is accepted. Its format is not consistent with the other OOGL binary formats. See Binary format. The `name` and `type` are followed by

         N Byte1 Byte2 ... ByteN

instead of data enclosed in curly braces.