// comments
Rex Jaeschke
rex at aussie.UUCP
Fri Nov 10 04:05:35 AEST 1989
> Commenting out code is NOT the big reason why inline // comments
> are convenient! It's so you don't have to remember to close every
> damn time.
How would you then propose the phases of translation problem be
resolved? Consider the following:
#define A 10 // ..... \<new-line>
Is the backslash part of the comment or is it a continuation
character?
According to 2.1.1.2, page 6 of the draft, continuation lines are
recognized before comments. However, the last line of a source file
CANNOT have a continuation character.
Rex
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