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Why do you need to use comments sometimes?

1. To combine different expressions together
2. To provide explanations or generating automatic documentation for your code CORRECT
3. To make the code look nice and beautiful

Which of the following code is correct?

package main

/ main function is an entry point /
func main() {
    fmt.Println("Hi")
}

2. CORRECT

package main

// main function is an entry point /*
func main() {
    fmt.Println(/* this will print Hi! */ "Hi")
}

package main

/*
main function is an entry point

It allows Go to find where to start executing an executable program.
*/
func main() {
    fmt.Println(// "this will print Hi!")
}

1: / is not a comment. It should be //.

2: Multiline comments can be put almost anywhere. However, when a comment starts with /*, it also needs to end with */. Here, Go doesn't interpret /* ... */, it just skips it. And, when Go sees // as the first two characters in a code, it skips the whole line.

3: // prevents Go to interpret the rest of the code line. That's why this code doesn't work. Go can't interpret this part because of the comment: "this will print Hi!")

How should you name your code so that Go can generate documentation from your code automatically?

1. By commenting each line of the code; then it will generate the documentation from whatever it sees
2. By starting the comments using the name of the declared names CORRECT
3. By using multi-line comments

1: This won't help. Sorry.

3: It doesn't matter whether you type your comments using single-line comments or multi-line comments.

Which tool do you need to use from the command-line to print the documentation?

1. go build
2. go run
3. go doctor
4. go doc CORRECT

What's the difference between godoc and go doc?

1. go doc is the real tool behind godoc
2. godoc is the real tool behind go doc CORRECT
3. go tool is the real tool behind go doc
4. go tool is the real tool behind godoc

2: That's right. go doc tool uses godoc tool behind the scenes. go doc is just a simplified version of the godoc tool.