How this program compiled and run successfully?

Question

The below program compiled successfully and run without any errors. As per my understanding is should have thrown error in line 4. Can somebody explain?

class Test{
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        // my favorite website is
        http://www.stackoverflow.com/questions/ask
        System.out.println("hello world");
    }
}

The syntax highlighting gives this problem away. You can see the label and the comment have different colours ;) — Peter Lawrey, Jul 04 '16 at 10:40

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 04 '16 at 10:13

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No, it's not an error, "http:" works here as the name of the label and "//" starts the comments which is ignored.

answered Jul 04 '16 at 10:13

Zbynek Vyskovsky - kvr000

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How this program compiled and run successfully?

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