comment style

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <4427 at alliant.Alliant.COM> tj at Alliant.COM (Tom Jaskiewicz) writes:
>//* what kind of comment is this? */

Not to pick on Tom, but this discussion is a real waste of time.
(a) // comments are not supported in Standard C, having been proposed
    to X3J11 and rejected after committee discussion.  Therefore this
    is the wrong newsgroup to be discussing them in.  Isn't there some
    sort of "future C proposals" group?  Or, use the C++ newsgroup.
(b) All questions about how to parse // comments would presumably be
    resolved by defining their role in the "phases of translation".
    Without such a definition, such questions have no unambiguous
    answers.  With such a definition, there is nothing to discuss.