The characters
start a comment, which terminates with the
characters
.These comments do not nest
.The characters
start a comment, which terminates immediately before the
next new-line character
.If there is a form-feed or a vertical-tab
character in such a comment, only whitespace characters shall appear
between it and the new-line that terminates the comment; no diagnostic
is required
.[
Note 1:
The comment characters
,
,
and
have no special meaning within a
comment and
are treated just like other characters
.Similarly, the comment
characters
and
have no special meaning within a
comment
. —
end note]