Comments
Comments are the descriptions that you add to the code as reminders to yourself and guidance to other coders; they are not part of the executable script. AppleScript uses two or more dashes (—) preceding the comment text for single-line comments and (* *) surrounding the comment text for single- or multi-line comments. Using dashes, you can have a comment on the same line as some code, such as:
set myvar to 10 -- initialize myvar to 10.
AppleScript does not use the popular slash-slash (//) single-line comment characters of Java or C++.
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