Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucbvax!ANDREW.CMU.EDU!tpn+ From: tpn+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Tom Neuendorffer) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: ctext suggestion Message-ID: Date: 29 May 90 18:14:30 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 15 Excerpts from mail: 29-May-90 Re: ctext suggestion Craig F. Everhart (1052+0) > One way of doing comments in ctext is simply to type everything on one > line. I use it all the time and haven't yet found a C compiler that > complains about very long lines, all of which is a comment. The problem with this is that while long lines may not bother C compilers, they can bother tools like ed and diff, and can thus render other tools (like patch) useless. We had a problem here with trying to send out a patch to a file with a very long line, and finding that we just couldn't do it. I would recommend against this practice. Tom N.