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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Comment Syntax
Message-ID: <I4=67D4@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 15 Nov 90 18:51:10 GMT
References: <14390@smoke.brl.mil> <48.UUL1.3#5077@aussie.COM>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <48.UUL1.3#5077@aussie.COM> rex@aussie.COM (Rex Jaeschke) writes:
> ANSI's phases of translation require that backslash/new-lines be 
> processed BEFORE comments.

Why?

Makes sense for me for comment processing to come first, before
anything else.
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