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Jesse Phillips
Jesse Phillips

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Comments in D

In my continued attempts to write in Python, I desired to comment out some code. I tried an assortment of styles including ; but I still had to search because I had forgotten #

D follows the C++ comments.

// single line
/*
  Multi-line
*/
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It goes a step further with nested comments.

/*
/*
  Multi-line
*/
This is not a comment 
*/

/+
/+
  Multi-line
+/
We are still a comment
+/
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If you place an additional character in the comment start, then these comments are eligible for documentation generation.

/// Document comment
/** doc comment */
/++ comment for docs +/
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Well D does not stop there and provides a different way to prevent code from compiling.

version (none) {
    auto var = 85;
}
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It is still run through the parser, but otherwise is not required to compile successfully.

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