comment style
Leif Andrew Rump
andrew at resam.dk
Wed Jan 9 21:15:24 AEST 1991
In <10690 at darkstar.ucsc.edu> funkstr at ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Larry Hastings) writes:
>As for /* */ style comments, I'd just use /*/ for both ends if I could
>get away with it. This makes it possible to have a single keymacro that emits
>both the begin and end comment markers. Comments would now look like:
> printf("\n"); /*/ I'm commenting this line for no reason /*/
>This works quite well with all the compilers I have handy. The only reason I
>don't do this is because I'm afraid my coworkers would form a lynch mob.
Well our Sun C compiler which sure _isn't_ ANSI C compatible allow quite a
few things:
#include <stdio.h>
main()
{
int my/* Comments is _not_ considered as a white space */var;
/*
/* // It doesn't detect nested comments
fprintf(stderr, "Hello");
/*/
fprintf(stderr, " World");
/*/
fprintf(stderr, "\n");
*/
myvar = 1;
}
>p.s. I'm kidding about the /*/ comment markers, in case you can't tell -- but
> I may work them in to an obfuscated C code contest entry
Does you C compiler not allow it or do You consider it bad programming? :-)
The above code compiled on a Sun producing " World" as output. And the
comment toggling is a neat feature!!! :-) :-/ :-( 8-( *-( [Sigh]
Leif Andrew
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