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[Guido van Rossum]

In comp.std.c you write:

>[...] When you have end-of-line comments
>there's no need for continuation characters. *All* characters are
>ignored between // and newline inclusive.

Your assumption (which you mention in several of your postings) is that
newline is not significant to the C compiler.  But it is to the
preprocessor because #include etc. must be at the start of a line.
The following example does not #include <stdio.h>:

	/* This line is continued... */       \
	#include <stdio.h>

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