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From: lewine@cheshirecat.rtp.dg.com (Donald Lewine)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Comment Syntax
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Date: 13 Nov 90 19:29:45 GMT
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In article <48.UUL1.3#5077@aussie.COM>, rex@aussie.COM (Rex Jaeschke) writes:
|> 
|> So, for a future version of ANSI C to adopt //, they would have to 
|> either rearrange the phases of translation (unlikely since that would 
|> no longer be backwards compatible) or to treat // and /**/ comments 
|> differently and add a new phase for //.

	Or say, "// comments may be continued using \, as in
	// This is a comment \
       and so it this.

I am not saying that continuing // comments is a good idea, merely that
it is possible without out major rework to the structure of the
compiler.


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