From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!duke!mcnc!idis!mi-cec!dvk
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Comments to EOL
Article-I.D.: mi-cec.199
Posted: Tue Nov 30 17:23:39 1982
Received: Sat Dec  4 05:00:32 1982

In reference to "comments to the end of a line" (ihuxx!ignatz, Dave Ihnat):

What do you mean "I am not supposed to know about that". I consider any
part of the C compiler (be that cpp, c0, c1, or c2) to  be as much of the
whole as any other part.

The pre-processor ONLY  knows about lines, 'cuz you have to "continue" them
when you are in a #define (via. "\"). Since cpp eliminates all comments
to speed up I/O in the later passes, why NOT have comments to the end of line?

Bliss-32 (a language I consider FAR superior to C) allows single line comments
(everything after a "!" is ignored), and multi-line comments (via "%(" and ")%")

So why not C? You could  use some silly overloading of current lexemes (for
example: "!!" or "%%").

	-Dan Klein, Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh