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Article #2250Re: comment style
From: Dan Bernstein
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 1991 04:03
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 1991 04:03
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In article <1991Jan05.194321.12428@kithrup.COM> sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes: > Fine. Please show me an existing C compiler that handles this. Please tell > me how you are going to handle > // we want to see if the character is a \ > if (c == '\\') But that's the beauty of end-of-line comments: You *automatically* delete everything, including the newline itself. // is both the comment mechanism and the continuation mechanism. All characters past //, through the newline, are ignored. Apparently Microsoft C doesn't do this right. Oh, well. > X3J11's job was to standardize *C*, not change it. Agreed. I don't think they should have added //, or trigraphs, or prototypes, or noalias. But // is still better than /* */. ---Dan
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!apple!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!hsdndev!cmcl2!kramden.acf.nyu.edu!brnstnd From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: comment style Message-ID: <17444:Jan804:03:3291@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> Date: 8 Jan 91 04:03:32 GMT References: <1991Jan04.164355.15674@sco.COM> <1991Jan05.194321.12428@kithrup.COM> Organization: IR Lines: 19