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From: eggert@ata.twinsun.com (Paul Eggert)
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Subject: backslash-newline inside C++ comments?
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Date: 18 Oct 90 23:00:00 GMT
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Is the sequence

	// a co\
	mment

a legal comment in ANSI C++?  ANSI C's translation phases are as follows:

	1.  Trigraphs are replaced by non-trigraph equivalents.
	2.  backslash-newline pairs are removed
	3.  The file is decomposed into preprocessing tokens and white space
	    (including comments).
	...

If C++ is like ANSI C here, then it seems that the above sequence must be a
legal C++ comment.