Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!taumet!steve
From: steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: // and phases of translation
Message-ID: <278@taumet.com>
Date: 29 Jun 90 15:29:35 GMT
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Reply-To: steve@taumet.UUCP (Stephen Clamage)
Organization: Taumetric Corporation, San Diego
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I am mystified by the continuing arguments in this thread.  The semantics
of allowing //-comments to go to the end of the line except when they
don't go to the end of the line seem pretty strange to me.  C++ does
still have /*...*/ comments, please recall, and this comment form does
precisely what is wanted without requiring odd semantic interpretations.
So if you must use complex macros in C++, and if you must have internal
comments in them, just use /*...*/ comments.  This always has worked
and always will work.

I dunno.  Maybe I'm too simple-minded.
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Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com