[3500] in java-interest
Re: declaration v.s. definition ambiguity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Zukowski)
Tue Nov 14 21:13:17 1995
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 18:27:15 -0500
From: jazukow@rssi.rssi.com (John Zukowski)
To: garya@village.org
Cc: java-interest@java.sun.com
>>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 /*?
>
The /** comment is used by javadoc to automate the generation of some
documentation. Stuff within /** is included. Stuff within /* or //
is not.
John Zukowski
Rapid Systems Solutions
john.zukowski@rssi.com
http://www.rssi.com/java-info.html
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