C++ allows // as an inline comment, it can be used on any line and is delimited by the newline character (return).
main() { int Counter = 0; // Initalise Counter. /* Start the main processing here. */ }
A handy feature of the new comments is the ability to nest them within the old style comments.
This provides a handy debugging tool. If you write your normal comments using the // syntax, you can then comment out blocks of code while debugging with /* */