Comments

  1. Comments should be placed at key places in a program to make the steps clearer to you and to others.

  2. The double forward slashes // are used to denote the start of a comment. The compiler ignores the text between the // and the end of the line.

    For example,

    // Declaration of variables:

    int score,           // variable for the exam score
          count = 0;    // variable to count the number of students

  3. Comments spanning more than a line can be included by enclosing the text by the symbol pair /* and */.

    For example,

    /* This is an example where the comments span
        more than a single line. This feature can be used
        during the debugging stage to temporarily omit
        certain blocks of code from a program.*/