Comment Syntax
Donald Lewine
lewine at cheshirecat.rtp.dg.com
Wed Nov 14 06:29:45 AEST 1990
In article <48.UUL1.3#5077 at aussie.COM>, rex at aussie.COM (Rex Jaeschke) writes:
|>
|> So, for a future version of ANSI C to adopt //, they would have to
|> either rearrange the phases of translation (unlikely since that would
|> no longer be backwards compatible) or to treat // and /**/ comments
|> differently and add a new phase for //.
Or say, "// comments may be continued using \, as in
// This is a comment \
and so it this.
I am not saying that continuing // comments is a good idea, merely that
it is possible without out major rework to the structure of the
compiler.
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