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Re: declaration v.s. definition ambiguity

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (R.Volkmann)
Tue Nov 14 13:55:04 1995

Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 09:39:53 -0600
From: "R.Volkmann" <m224873@svxtrm14.mdc.com>
To: garya@village.org
Cc: daconta@PrimeNet.Com, java-interest@java.sun.com
In-Reply-To: <9511131632.AA28427@ montana.com> (garya@village.org)
Reply-To: "R. Mark Volkmann"<m224873@svmstr01.mdc.com>

>Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 09:32:41 -0700
>From: garya@village.org (Gary Aitken)
>
>It would be really 
>nice if /** comments in the code could be preserved in the .class file (new 
>option for javac?), and output by javap.  One could then program in a style 
>which allowed shipping a .class file from which javap could extract a 
>reliable, well documented api.

I'm new to Java.  Why would you want to use a /** comment instead of //?
Does it do something different?  How does /** differ from /*?

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