comment style
Leif Andrew Rump
andrew at resam.dk
Sat Jan 12 02:53:26 AEST 1991
In <10852 at darkstar.ucsc.edu> funkstr at ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Larry Hastings) writes:
>+-In article <4423 at alliant.Alliant.COM>,
>| tj at Alliant.COM (Tom Jaskiewicz) wrote:
>|
>| My first impression of // comments was that they are a harmless addition
>| to the language. After reading some of the discussion in this newgroup
>| I now believe that they are not harmless.
>|
>| If you do add // comments to c, what does the following code do?
>|
>| /* printf("One\n"); /* 1 */
>| printf("Two\n"); /* 2 */
>| /* printf("Three\n");
>| // printf("Four\n"); /* 4 */
>| printf("Five\n"); /* 5 */
>| // printf("Six\n"); /* 6
>| printf("Seven\n"); /* 7 */
>| /* printf("Eight\n");
>| // */ printf("Nine\n");
>| printf("Ten\n"); /* 10 */
>+----------
>Well, under Turbo C (which supports // comments in "Turbo C" and "Turbo C++"
>modes"), this prints
>Two
>Five
>Seven
>Nine
>Ten
Just a single question: Does TC warn you about comment (/*) inside
a comment (//)? If not then _I_ will never mix // and /**/ and maybe
even abandon // completely!!!
Leif Andrew
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> > Read oe as: o <backspace> / (slash) and OE as O <backspace> / (slash) < <
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