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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: comment style
Message-ID: <1990Dec21.014321.5000@kithrup.COM>
Date: 21 Dec 90 01:43:21 GMT
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In article <276814F4.141@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> kevinb@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Kevin Boyes) writes:
>Does any one know why the ANSI committee excluded the C++ comment style
>( // to end of line ) from the standard.

Show me a C compiler that implements this.  (Actually, Microsoft C 5.0 and
later does.)

Show me a need for it.  (Prototypes fulfilled a rather large hole, and made
life a *lot* easier for certain groups.)

Adding // comments was, for the most part, untested in C, and unnecessary.

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