the * is indeed to ignore the line when compiling from lib to lbx.
the reason is that unknown references are in the lib and are only known at compile time with the main program.
when conditional compilation was added, i had to add * before that as well, but at a later stage this was changed so the * are not required for the #IF. But they do not harm either.
instead of the nops you could better insert a @genus(1)
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