o This clause provides a way to associate text with a record description, providing a tool for documenting the sources of data and for describing the field structure of a record. DESCRIPTION text can also aid in establishing record definition conventions and standards. o You can also include comments in a CDDL source file by using the exclamation point (!) as a comment delimiter. Using the DESCRIPTION clause is preferable to including comment lines in the source file because DESCRIPTION text is stored directly in the CDD. CDDL/COPY_LIST copies DESCRIPTION clauses from template records, but does not copy comments preceded by an exclamation point. Also, you can display record-level DESCRIPTION text with DMU's LIST/ITEM=DESCRIPTION command. DMU's EXTRACT/RECORD command extracts record- and field-level DESCRIPTION text but does not extract comments preceded by an exclamation point.