>You see I sadly miss the ability to add # to comment one line =bla
I guess every programming language has some individual features which will be sorely missed by someone coming to XQuery from that particular language. (I still pine after a language that allowed spaces in variable and function names). The consequence of this line of reasoning is that XQuery should offer every feature that has been offered by every other popular programming language.
Personally, I've never come across a "comment to end of file" feature in any of the many languages I have used, and have never felt a need for it. As for "comment to end of line", we made a conscious decision that in many of the environments where XQuery is likely to be used, line endings are potentially unstable (e.g. they can be normalized away if used in XML attributes) and that it was therefore a bad idea to treat a line ending differently from a space.
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