Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!maytag!aries5!lhf
From: lhf@aries5.uucp (Luiz H de Figueiredo)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: // comments
Message-ID: <799@maytag.waterloo.edu>
Date: 9 Nov 89 21:21:36 GMT
References: <14883@bfmny0.UU.NET> <27.UUL1.3#5077@aussie.UUCP>
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Reply-To: lhf@aries5.UUCP (Luiz H de Figueiredo)
Organization: Computer Systems Group, University of Waterloo
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In article <27.UUL1.3#5077@aussie.UUCP> rex@aussie.UUCP (Rex Jaeschke) writes:
>
>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?

 The removal of \<new-line> occurs in phase 2, *before* comments are replaced
by spaces.
 For //-comments, the same rule would hold.
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