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Rust Comments

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Summary

This lesson explains how to write comments in Rust program code. Commentary serves to explain the documentation and will be ignored by the compiler when building the program. Rust supports single-line commentary, multi-line commentary, as well as special documentation commentary.

Key points

One line commentary begins with a double slash '//'
Comments are lined up between '/*' and '*/'
Documentation commentary is started with '///' to generate HTML documentation
Clean comment writing makes it easier for teams to maintain code

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