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]