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From: iverson@ivy.uucp (Tim Iverson)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: comment style
Message-ID: <1990Dec27.215842.23685@ivy.uucp>
Date: 27 Dec 90 21:58:42 GMT
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In article <26036@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) writes:
>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. [...]

Actually, you don't have to put the closing '*/' on the *end* of the line:

/*	e.g. these lines are commented out /* even if they have comments */
/*	You can also grep for "^/**/" to find where they all are.
/**/

>Brian

- Tim Iverson
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