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Note that you cannot place a /* ... */ comment inside another /* ... */ comment. If you try to do so, you find that the inner comment's terminator, */, terminates the outer comment, and your Java compiler cannot compile your program:

/*  <-----------------------------------* 
                                        | 
First part of outer comment             | 
                                        | 
/*  <-- Commented out                   | Delimiter, */, of inner 
                                        | comment terminates delimiter, 
Inner comment                           | /*, of outer comment 
                                        | 
*/ -------------------------------------* 

Second part of outer comment 

*/  <-- Dangles