Java Language Comments

Comments are descriptions that are added to a program to make code easier to understand. The compiler ignores comments and hence its only for documentation of the program.

Java supports three comment styles.

• Block style comments begin with /* and terminate with */ that spans multiple lines.
• Line style comments begin with // and terminate at the end of the line.
• Documentation style comments begin with /** and terminate with */ that spans multiple lines. They are generally created using the automatic documentation generation tool, such as javadoc.

For Example:

class HelloWorld
    {
              public static void main (String args[]) //main method definition
        {
                System.out.println("Hello World!");  /* System.outpritln is used for
                                printing */
        }

    }

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