line comments (## vs. //)

[Geoff Kuenning]

In article <423 at kcl-cs.UUCP> lee at kcl-cs.UUCP (Lee McLoughlin) writes:

>>The comment style is the only thing out of Ada I like.  I would
>>go for that kind of comment style in C too.  The /* other kind of */
>>comment is d*mn inconvenient sometimes too.
>
>I too would like to see a comment style similiar to ada's '--' however a brief
>warning I've seen at least one preprocessor for C (I think it was the Equel
>preprocessor in the Ingres system) which used '##'.  But then again just
>about anything chosen runs the risk of clashing with an existing pre-processor.

Somebody clever (sorry, I forgot who) suggested '//' for this a month or two
ago.  I think // is visually much nicer than ##, as well as being much
easier to type on reasonable keyboards.
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	Geoff Kuenning
	First Systems Corporation
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