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Article #2283Re: comment style
From: Tom Jaskiewicz
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 1991 01:44
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 1991 01:44
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In article <10852@darkstar.ucsc.edu> funkstr@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Larry Hastings) writes:
>This makes this example somewhat less compelling -- if you had a program
>which was legal both ways and produced different output, I'd be more
>inclined to agree. (I can't come up with such an example -- does anyone have
>one?)
Ok... How about this:
int foo(int a, int b)
{
return a
//* what kind of comment is this? */ 2
//* what kind of comment is this? */
-b;
}
Not that I normally write code that looks like that.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!xylogics!merk!alliant!tj From: tj@Alliant.COM (Tom Jaskiewicz) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: comment style Message-ID: <4427@alliant.Alliant.COM> Date: 12 Jan 91 01:44:49 GMT References: <4423@alliant.Alliant.COM> <10852@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Organization: Alliant Computer Systems Corp. Lines: 24