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Go Comments

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Summary

This lesson explains how to write comments on Go. One-line commentary is written with two slashes // and multi-line commentary is wrapped /*... */, similar to the C family of languages. Comments are also used for documentation of packages and functions that can be read by godoc tools.

Key points

One line commentary written with //
Multi-line comments are wrapped up.
The comments above the declaration serve as a documentation of the godoc
Comments are not executed and ignored by the compiler

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