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From: jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook)
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Subject: Re: comment style
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Date: 21 Dec 90 03:22:03 GMT
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I personally like the // commenting style.  Including it would not have been
a major hassle for the ANSI committee, I beleive.  It is very nice and quite
quick when it comes to commenting out only one line of code.  No going to
end of line and adding a */...that gets annoying.  for large blocks of code,
I prefer the /* */ combination, and I also prefer it for "real" comments,
ie. permanent programmer-programmer comments, not just temporarily stopping
the compilation of a routine.

By the way, // is supported by TC++ even when it is in .C compile mode only.

Brian