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From: steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
Subject: Re: backslash-newline inside C++ comments?
Message-ID: <484@taumet.com>
Date: 19 Oct 90 18:41:58 GMT
References: <1990Oct18.230000.14131@twinsun.com>
Organization: Taumetric Corporation, San Diego
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eggert@ata.twinsun.com (Paul Eggert) writes:

>Is the sequence
>	// a co\
>	mment
>a legal comment in ANSI C++?  ANSI C's translation phases are as follows:

There is no such thing as ANSI C++ yet, and indeed this is one of the
issues which must be resolved by the ANSI C++ (X3J16) committee.  There
was a heated debate on this very point in comp.lang.c++ (I think) some
months ago.  Different C++ compilers currently treat this differently.
To be safe, do not use //-style comments with continued lines.  Use /* */
comments instead.
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Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com