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Aswin Shailajan
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The [Comments #198](https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/pull/198) got accepted but the details were not updated in the design docs. Added `comments.md` file to add the details of the proposal and its discussion. Closes #1994
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Lexical conventions
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Lexical elements
The first stage of processing a source file is the division of the source file into lexical elements.
A lexical element is one of the following:
- a maximal sequence of whitespace characters
- a word
- a literal:
- a comment
- TODO: operators ...
The sequence of lexical elements is formed by repeatedly removing the longest initial sequence of characters that forms a valid lexical element.