This is completely wrong. Triple quotes in Python indicate a string. It happens to be able to be used for a multi-line comment because it officially leaves no artifact in the AST if it's not assigned to anything (can't find the documentation for this atm).
/ * ... * / is a comment in Javascript. Changing it to mean multi-line string is a terrible idea.
This list of changes to Javascript borrows so much from Python I'm surprised they didn't also borrow Python's multi-line string syntax.
> Python uses the same syntax for multi-line strings as for comments.
No it does not. Triple-quoted strings are still strings, all comments in Python are prefixed with `#`.
There are two situations where triple quoted strings are used as "comments":
* Multiline comments for lazy people, as Python has no multiline comment syntax
* docstrings. As the name indicate, they're strings, they're not comments and should not be confused by more ad-hoc systems such as javadoc comments. Python lets you write `help(name)` and get the docstring associated with the object
/ * ... * / is a comment in Javascript. Changing it to mean multi-line string is a terrible idea.
This list of changes to Javascript borrows so much from Python I'm surprised they didn't also borrow Python's multi-line string syntax.