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Article #1974Re: Comment Syntax
From: Donald Lewine
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 1990 19:29
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 1990 19:29
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In article <48.UUL1.3#5077@aussie.COM>, rex@aussie.COM (Rex Jaeschke) writes:
|>
|> So, for a future version of ANSI C to adopt //, they would have to
|> either rearrange the phases of translation (unlikely since that would
|> no longer be backwards compatible) or to treat // and /**/ comments
|> differently and add a new phase for //.
Or say, "// comments may be continued using \, as in
// This is a comment \
and so it this.
I am not saying that continuing // comments is a good idea, merely that
it is possible without out major rework to the structure of the
compiler.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!dg!cheshirecat!lewine From: lewine@cheshirecat.rtp.dg.com (Donald Lewine) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: Comment Syntax Message-ID: <1134@dg.dg.com> Date: 13 Nov 90 19:29:45 GMT References: <14390@smoke.brl.mil> <48.UUL1.3#5077@aussie.COM> Sender: root@dg.dg.com Reply-To: uunet!dg!lewine Organization: Data General Corporation Lines: 23