MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004-ACTIONSCRIPT LANGUAGE, Reference

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/* (comment delimiter)
Availability
Flash Player 5.
Usage
/* comment */
/*
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 */
See also
// (comment delimiter)