CrossRoads:
/* symmetrical comments go here */
Thank you! I guess I'll have to use this from now on! Or just live with ugly comments 
Delta_G:
That is exactly right. And the \ symbol at the end of a comment means, "the comment continues on the next line too." It tells the compiler not to read the next line either.
But that means the compiler is reading 1 character from a line I told it to ignore. Which brings up another question. What if I put a character after the \ ?