Of course, @ffesti is right - the *actual* problem is that there's no way to
copmletely discard lines. What we need, instead of complex heuristics and
different modes and all, is the equivalent of M4 "dnl".
Quoting from
https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/m4/manual/m4-1.4.18/html_node/Dnl.html,
this fits the bill just about perfectly:
> All characters, up to and including the next newline, are discarded without
> performing any macro expansion.
> The expansion of dnl is void.
I was about to suggest %rem for this but perhaps %dnl, with intentional
association with M4, would be a better choice because it's semantics are
exactly what is called for here.
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