Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!dkuug!resam!andrew From: andrew@resam.dk (Leif Andrew Rump) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: comment style Message-ID: <1991Jan11.155326.3125@resam.dk> Date: 11 Jan 91 15:53:26 GMT References: <4423@alliant.Alliant.COM> <10852@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Organization: RESAM Project Office, SAS, CPHML-V Lines: 45 In <10852@darkstar.ucsc.edu> funkstr@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Larry Hastings) writes: >+-In article <4423@alliant.Alliant.COM>, >| tj@Alliant.COM (Tom Jaskiewicz) wrote: >| >| My first impression of // comments was that they are a harmless addition >| to the language. After reading some of the discussion in this newgroup >| I now believe that they are not harmless. >| >| If you do add // comments to c, what does the following code do? >| >| /* printf("One\n"); /* 1 */ >| printf("Two\n"); /* 2 */ >| /* printf("Three\n"); >| // printf("Four\n"); /* 4 */ >| printf("Five\n"); /* 5 */ >| // printf("Six\n"); /* 6 >| printf("Seven\n"); /* 7 */ >| /* printf("Eight\n"); >| // */ printf("Nine\n"); >| printf("Ten\n"); /* 10 */ >+---------- >Well, under Turbo C (which supports // comments in "Turbo C" and "Turbo C++" >modes"), this prints >Two >Five >Seven >Nine >Ten Just a single question: Does TC warn you about comment (/*) inside a comment (//)? If not then _I_ will never mix // and /**/ and maybe even abandon // completely!!! Leif Andrew Leif Andrew Rump, AmbraSoft A/S, Stroedamvej 50, DK-2100 Copenhagen OE, Denmark UUCP: andrew@ambra.dk, phone: +45 39 27 11 77 / Currently at Scandinavian Airline Systems =======/ UUCP: andrew@resam.dk, phone: +45 32 32 51 54 \ SAS, RESAM Project Office, CPHML-V, P.O.BOX 150, DK-2770 Kastrup, Denmark > > Read oe as: o / (slash) and OE as O / (slash) < <