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From: rex@aussie.UUCP (Rex Jaeschke)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: // comments
Message-ID: <27.UUL1.3#5077@aussie.UUCP>
Date: 9 Nov 89 17:05:35 GMT
References: <14883@bfmny0.UU.NET>
Organization: Journal of C Language Translation
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> Commenting out code is NOT the big reason why inline // comments
> are convenient!  It's so you don't have to remember to close every
> damn time.

How would you then propose the phases of translation problem be 
resolved? Consider the following:

#define A 10   // ..... \<new-line>

Is the backslash part of the comment or is it a continuation 
character?

According to 2.1.1.2, page 6 of the draft, continuation lines are 
recognized before comments. However, the last line of a source file 
CANNOT have a continuation character.

Rex

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