Right, but the story sounds plausible because accidentally pasting '# foo > bar' would safely neuter everything else on the line. If # isn't special, then the

Right, but the story sounds plausible because accidentally pasting '# foo > bar' would safely neuter everything else on the line. If # isn't special, then the rest of the line is still parsed, so pasting '# foo || bar' or '# foo > baz' does do something.