May 2003
Intermediate to advanced
808 pages
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Comments start with /*
and end with */. These comments do
not nest. For example:
/* this is a comment /* still a comment */ int not_in_a_comment;
A comment can also start with //, extending to the end of the line. For
example:
const int max_widget = 42; // Largest size of a widget
Within a /* and */ comment, // characters have no special meaning. Within
a // comment, /* and */
have no special meaning. Thus, you can “nest” one kind of comment within
the other kind. For example:
/* Comment out a block of code: const int max_widget = 42; // Largest size of a widget */ ///* Inhibit the start of a block comment const int max_widget = 10; // Testing smaller widget limit //*/
A comment is treated as whitespace. For example, str/*comment*/ing describes two separate
tokens, str and ing.