Purpose of Documentation Comment?

[Duncan]

I recently discovered that my IDE highlights "documentation comments" differely from regular comments

//Normal Comment
///Documentation Comment 

I can't really figure out what a Documentation Comment is for... could someone elaborate please?

Thanks.

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What IDE are you using?

[Duncan]

Code::Blocks or Xcode

they both have Documentation Comments as a customizable syntax highlight, separate from normal comments

[seymore15074]

Read the (online, probably) literature for your IDE...

It probably has some tool like Javadoc or something that extracts information from those comments and makes a reference page or something... I've seen a lot of @something's in comments for that sort of thing. It's nice to generate documentation from code rather than maintaining the two in different places.