answer = 42; // valid independent of the input
/* ... This next bit of code is so obvious that I hesitated to comment it a first. For those whom intergalactic culture is limited, please refer to the textbook : "the hitch hicker guide for the galaxy" by Douglas Adams. tip : 42 is the answer for life, the universe and everything */ answer = 42;
Next to white space, the most important part of any Java program is comments. Keep in mind the syntax of a language is designed for communicating a program's design to a computer. Comments, on the other hand, are the primary mechanism for communicating a program's design to humans. Java has three types of comments.