Comments in Java

Single Line Comments

If needed to add some explanation sentence to the code we can use a single line comment. For this used two forward slashes that are placed at the beginning of a line of text.

1 //an explanation sentence

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Nested Comments

A single line comment can also be used inside a block of code. This is called nesting.

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We can use also multiple single line comments between several lines of code.

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Multi-Line Comments

To represent as a comment a group of text similar to a paragraph we can use a Multi-line comment. It should begins and ends with a forward slash and an asterisk. Multi-line comments can be placed before code and also can be nested inside of a code block.

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Single Line Comments Nested Inside Multi-Line Comments

Single line comments can be nested inside of multi-line comments. However, multi-line comments cannot be nested inside of other multi-line comments.

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