# \[Accepted\] SE-0037: Clarify interaction between comments & operators

**URL:** <https://forums.swift.org/t/accepted-se-0037-clarify-interaction-between-comments-operators/1833>\
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**Created:** [March 16, 2016, 3:27pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/accepted-se-0037-clarify-interaction-between-comments-operators/1833 "2016-03-16T15:27:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chris\_Lattner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bc8723/32.png) [@Chris\_Lattner](https://forums.swift.org/u/Chris_Lattner)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 3:27pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/accepted-se-0037-clarify-interaction-between-comments-operators/1833/1 "2016-03-16T15:27:39Z")

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Proposal Link: [swift-evolution/0037-clarify-comments-and-operators.md at master · apple/swift-evolution · GitHub](https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0037-clarify-comments-and-operators.md)

The review of SE-0037 "Clarify interaction between comments & operators" ran from Mar 11…15, 2016. The proposal has been \*accepted\*:

There was little community discussion, but the core team and the community participants both agree that this clarifies a corner case in the language, and treating block comments as whitespace is the most predictable behavior.

I filed SE-960 to track implementation of this work. Thank you to Jesse Rusak for driving this forward!

-Chris Lattner  
Review Manager