2.6 Native Directives and Lexical Disambiguation

The `#` character serves two purposes in Dryad. It is used exclusively to indicate Native Directives (when immediately followed by '<' and '>' characters or in the simplified #module format without spaces). In other inappropriate contexts, the lexer reports a Syntax Error (1000-1999 Lexer Errors).

 1 #io           // OK: NativeDirective("io")
 2 #         // LEXER ERROR (space after # symbol)
 3 //#io         // Comment discarded by parser
 4 "#io"         // Normal string literal

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Official Version: 1.0 · May 2026