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Lexical syntax
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+Ninja is mostly encoding agnostic, as long as the bytes Ninja cares
+about (like slashes in paths) are ASCII. This means e.g. UTF-8 or
+ISO-8859-1 input files ought to work.
+
Comments begin with `#` and extend to the end of the line.
Newlines are significant. Statements like `build foo bar` are a set