VIM with Syntastic: Why is VIM's JAVA syntax highlighting thrown off by `<` and `>` in a comment block?

Question

In VIM, when editing .java files, I'm seeing the syntax highlighter being thrown off by the < and > characters inside of comment blocks.

It seems to expect me to close the <characters with a >.

Here's an example:

/**
 *  `<` <-- this character causes a syntax error
 */

Using VIM with Syntastic.

Any idea what's going on?

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 26 '14 at 02:20

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Javadoc comments use html for formatting. < is the start of a tag and it never ends so it is invalid html. You need to use < instead.

answered Sep 26 '14 at 02:20

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or alternatively, use `/*` instead of `/**` if you're not writing JavaDoc – OhleC Sep 26 '14 at 14:08

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