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I'm trying to write an ever-so-simple little statement counter for C.
Basically, I want to count lines, comment (blocks), functions,
executable statements, and a few other things.

The thing which is proving unexpectedly hard is the tokeniser.
Could someone confirm that I have understood correctly that the order
of translation phases is to be taken in deadly earnest, that
"backslash new line" can appear _anywhere_, so that for example
	|L\
	|'x\
	|'
is a valid long character constant, and
	|/\
	|* wow *\
	|/
is a valid comment?

I am in the process of adding support for this to my tokeniser, but if it's
true, then it simply adds more fuel to my distaste for text-based tools
such as found in "Software Engineering with Perl" (Dichter & Pease).

-- 
"conventional orthography is ... a near optimal system for the
 lexical representation of English words." Chomsky & Halle, S.P.E.
Richard A. O'Keefe; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~ok; RMIT Comp.Sci.