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Comments in general

It is good practice to write comments explaining your code. There are two types of comments in Java, both with syntax similar to comments in C and C++. Traditional comments: Enclose a traditional comment in /* and */. End-of-line comments: Use double slashes (//) which causes the rest of the line ignored by the compiler. Traditional comments do not nest, which means /*   /* comment 1 */   comment 2 */ is invalid because the first */ after the first /* will terminate which will generate a compiler error End-of-line comments can contain anything, including the sequences of characters /* and */, such as this: // /* this comment is okay */