Ah, you know, I never bothered looking up the help on '*' or '&&' before reading your message, because they seemed quite straight forward. Lookie below at what I found:

* Command

Remarks

Place a semicolon (;) at the end of each comment line that continues to a following line.


It says right in the docs that it'll do that. I guess then my only remaining beef on the topic is that the syntax coloring doesn't carry over to the following lines to indicate to the programmer that they are indeed NOT going to be executed. At least now I know. Thanks again for your input.