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[std] Punctuation after "OK" example comments

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Description

I thought the policy for example comments "// OK, explanation" was to use a comma. However, the statistics are not in my favor:

$ grep "// OK," *.tex | wc -l
138
$ grep "// OK:" *.tex | wc -l
251

Asking for confirmation of the policy before providing a large-scale fix.

Incidentally related to #3126.

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the policy question in this issue and the related discussion in #3126, then rerun the provided grep commands over the *.tex files. Once the punctuation policy is confirmed, update the affected example comments consistently and verify that the counts reflect the agreed convention.

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