Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!xanth!ginosko!ctrsol!lll-winken!muslix!jac From: jac@muslix.llnl.gov (James Crotinger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Dealing with multiple scripting languages (was: Elinating the 'rx' from AREXX) Message-ID: <31742@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> Date: 29 Aug 89 15:15:43 GMT References: <721@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Sender: usenet@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV Reply-To: jac@muslix.UUCP (James Crotinger) Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory/UC Davis Lines: 15 In article limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) writes: >In article <721@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes: > >So did ANSI XJ11. That's why // is a valid comment-until-then-end-of-line >sequence now. (Just like in C++) >-- This is the third time I've heard this. Can someone verify this? I've asked both Lattice, and our local ANSI expert (who was on the committee), and both have said "no". Similarly, I've yet to C a book on the ANSI standard which says it supports // comments. I hope that ANSI did decide to add these at the last minute. I certainly can't see any harm in doing so... Jim