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From: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: line comments (## vs. //)
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Date: Mon, 19-Nov-84 01:59:41 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 19 01:59:41 1984
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In article <423@kcl-cs.UUCP> lee@kcl-cs.UUCP (Lee McLoughlin) writes:

>>The comment style is the only thing out of Ada I like.  I would
>>go for that kind of comment style in C too.  The /* other kind of */
>>comment is d*mn inconvenient sometimes too.
>
>I too would like to see a comment style similiar to ada's '--' however a brief
>warning I've seen at least one preprocessor for C (I think it was the Equel
>preprocessor in the Ingres system) which used '##'.  But then again just
>about anything chosen runs the risk of clashing with an existing pre-processor.

Somebody clever (sorry, I forgot who) suggested '//' for this a month or two
ago.  I think // is visually much nicer than ##, as well as being much
easier to type on reasonable keyboards.
-- 

	Geoff Kuenning
	First Systems Corporation
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