Comment (computing)

Comment (computing)

In computing, a comment is information in a file that is primarily intended as an annotation. The structure, scope and processing applied to this information depends on the syntax and conventions used to describe the information contained in the file.

A common occurrence are the comments that appear in the source code of a program. In this case the syntax of the programming language specifies the form that comments can take. Such comments could be said to be computer programming comments.

Another common usage are the comments that appear in an initialization or configuration file.

Word processors often support an option that enables writers of documents to effectively write "notes" to themselves about the material they are writing. These "notes" are not visible to a reader of the document unless explicitly asked for.

ee also

*Comment (computer programming)
*Comment out
*Docstring, a specific type of comment that is parsed and retained throughout the runtime of the program
*HTML comment tag

External links

* [http://dkrukovsky.blogspot.com/2005/07/how-to-write-comments.html How to Write Comments] by Denis Krukovsky
* [http://java.sun.com/j2se/javadoc/writingdoccomments/ How to Write Comments for the Javadoc Tool]
* [http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/index.html Doxygen, a documentation system for C, C++, Java, Objective-C, Python, IDL and to some extent PHP, C#, and D]


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