3.7. Comments

There are two kinds of comments.

• /* text */

A traditional comment: all the text from the ASCII characters /* to the ASCII characters */ is ignored (as in C and C++).

• // text

An end-of-line comment: all the text from the ASCII characters // to the end of the line is ignored (as in C++).

Comment:    TraditionalComment    EndOfLineCommentTraditionalComment:    / * CommentTailEndOfLineComment:    / / CharactersInLineoptCommentTail:    * CommentTailStar    NotStar CommentTailCommentTailStar:    /    * CommentTailStar    NotStarNotSlash CommentTailNotStar:    InputCharacter but not *    LineTerminatorNotStarNotSlash:    InputCharacter but not * or /    LineTerminatorCharactersInLine:    InputCharacter    CharactersInLine InputCharacter ...

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