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Chapter 4  

Comments

This chapter describes the syntax for comments, which can appear anywhere between tokens.

comment


Notations by the author to explain what a script does. Comments are ignored by the interpreter.

Implemented in  

JavaScript 1.0, NES 2.0  

ECMA version  

ECMA-262  

Syntax 


// comment text
/* multiple line comment text */


Description
JavaScript supports Java-style comments:

  • Comments on a single line are preceded by a double-slash (//).
  • Comments that span multiple lines are preceded by a /* and followed by a */.


Examples 

 
// This is a single-line comment.
/* This is a multiple-line comment. It can be of any length, and
you can put whatever you want here. */

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