Documentation comments

Question

Why do we need documentation comments. I mean we can use multi line comments if we only want the comments to be read on the source code

Answer 1

The IDEs show the documentation comments, when you hover over a term. So they're quite helpful.

Answer 2

You could stick to /* multiline comments */ if you want, but it's a good practice to get your code ready for a /** documentation */ to be generated... imagine you're successful with your code and you sell it to a company... They'll need to know how your code works without having to look at the source.

Answer 3

if I want my comments to be visible to the user, only then we use documentation comment.....u can see the comment yourself when u use multiple line comment...but user is unable to because he is not having the source code .....
user just see the out of the code

Answer 4

*out-output