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From: funkstr@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Larry Hastings)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: comment style
Message-ID: <10690@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
Date: 7 Jan 91 11:51:11 GMT
References: <1991Jan04.164355.15674@sco.COM> <1991Jan05.194321.12428@kithrup.COM>
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+-In article <1991Jan05.194321.12428@kithrup.COM>,
| sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) wrote:
|
| I know of only one C compiler that accepts //-style comments:  Microsoft C,
| versions 5.0 and later.
+----------

Well, that's certainly not all of them; Turbo C++ (and perhaps Turbo C 2.0)
for DOS accepts // comments, as do all the MetaWare compilers since version
1.5 (which is about two years).

As for /* */ style comments, I'd just use /*/ for both ends if I could
get away with it.  This makes it possible to have a single keymacro that emits
both the begin and end comment markers.  Comments would now look like:

	printf("\n");  /*/ I'm commenting this line for no reason /*/

This works quite well with all the compilers I have handy.  The only reason I
don't do this is because I'm afraid my coworkers would form a lynch mob.
--
larry hastings, the galactic funkster, funkstr@ucscb.ucsc.edu

I don't speak for Knowledge Dynamics or UC Santa Cruz, nor do they speak for me

"People, it's Fonzie with Teret's syndrome!"--Dennis Miller on Andrew Dice Clay
p.s. I'm kidding about the /*/ comment markers, in case you can't tell -- but
     I may work them in to an obfuscated C code contest entry