Comment Syntax

[Alan J Rosenthal]

>In article <48.UUL1.3#5077 at aussie.COM> rex at aussie.COM (Rex Jaeschke) writes:
>> ANSI's phases of translation require that backslash/new-lines be 
>> processed BEFORE comments.

peter at ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Why?
>
>Makes sense for me for comment processing to come first, before
>anything else.

What about /\
* this, which is a comment? */
Backslash-newline removal must come first.