programming Comments that occupy several lines by
themselves; so called because in
assembler and
C code they
are often surrounded by a box in a style similar to this:
/*************************************************
*
* This is a boxed comment in C style
*
*************************************************/
Common variants of this style omit the asterisks in column 2
or add a matching row of asterisks closing the right side of
the box. The sparest variant omits all but the comment
(1997-07-21)