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From: wpl@PRC.Unisys.COM (William P Loftus)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: "//" for comments (was: Correction)
Message-ID: <5215@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM>
Date: 9 Jan 88 19:29:54 GMT
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In article <511@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>BCPL has end-of-line comments introduced by "//".  I wonder whether the
>reintroduction of this into C++ is a coincidence?

On page 3 of "The C++ Programming Language":

	"BCPL's // comment convention has been (re)introduced..."
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