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add back discard as a way to do multiline comments, see #12352 (#20688)

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@ -257,6 +257,18 @@ Multiline documentation comments also exist and support nesting too:
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You can also use the [discard statement](#statements-and-expressions-discard-statement) together with
[triple quoted string literals](#lexical-analysis-triple-quoted-string-literals) to create multiline comments:
```nim
discard """ You can have any Nim code text commented
out inside this with no indentation restrictions.
yes("May I ask a pointless question?") """
```
This was how multiline comments were done before version 0.13.0,
and it is used to provide specifications to [testament](testament.html#writing-unitests) test framework.
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