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/* (comment delimiter) 55

/* (comment delimiter)

Availability

Flash Player 5.

Usage

/* comment */

comment

Parameters

comment

Any characters.

Returns

Nothing.

Description

Comment; indicates one or more lines of script comments. Any characters that appear between

the opening comment tag (

/*) and the closing comment tag (*/), are interpreted as a comment

and ignored by the ActionScript interpreter. Use the // (comment delimiter) to identify single-line

comments. Use the /* comment delimiter to identify comments on multiple successive lines.

Leaving off the closing tag (

*/) when using this form of comment delimiter returns an

error message. Attempting to nest comments also returns an error message. After an opening

comment tag (/*) is used, the first closing comment tag (

*/) will end the comment, regardless of

the number of opening comment tags (/*) placed between them.

For more information, see “Operator precedence and associativity” in Using ActionScript in Flash.

Example

The following script uses comment delimiters at the beginning of the script:

/* records the X and Y positions of the

ball and bat movie clips */

var ballX:Number = ball_mc._x;

var ballY:Number = ball_mc._y;

var batX:Number = bat_mc._x;

var batY:Number = bat_mc._y;

The following attempt to nest comments will result in an error message:

/* this is an attempt to nest comments.

/* But the first closing tag will be paired with the first opening tag */

and this text will not be interpreted as a comment */