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From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
Subject: Re: Comment Syntax
Message-ID: <1990Nov16.073926.3624@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
References: <14390@smoke.brl.mil> <48.UUL1.3#5077@aussie.COM> <I4=67D4@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 16 Nov 90 12:39:27 GMT
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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.

peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Why?
>
>Makes sense for me for comment processing to come first, before
>anything else.

What about /\
* this, which is a comment? */
Backslash-newline removal must come first.