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Two documentation terms and code concepts:
Comments
Comments allow us to place notes inside the code, without affecting how the program runs:
// this is a comment in JavaScript
/*
this is also a comment in JavaScript
when we want to write something
longer than one line
*/
However, we do hope to write our JavaScript clearly enough so that we can avoid excessive commenting!
Whitespace
To a certain extent, whitespace does not affect the running of JavaScript past the first space, e.g.:
let x = 1
We cannot write the following, for example, and expect the code to behave in the same fashion as the above:
letx=1
However, JavaScript will let us to do things like this:
let x=1
or this:
let x = 1
but why? Let's just stick to this kind of convention:
let x = 1