line comments (## vs. //)

[jim at ISM780B.UUCP]

>Couldn't you use something like
>
>        # define // /*
>
>to accomplish this. This would also allow you to make anything else comment
>delimiters rather easy. Seems to simply of a solution, what's wrong with it????

a) // is not a legal macro name
b) /* introduces a comment even for cpp, so it can't be part of defined text
c) the desired semantics for // are different (comment terminated by newline)
   from those of /* (terminated by */)

-- Jim Balter, INTERACTIVE Systems (ima!jim)