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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Lisp-style comments
Message-ID: <10150@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 27 Apr 89 12:49:18 GMT
References: <3851@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <3851@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> julian@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Julian Cowley) writes:
>Someone told me recently that the latest ANSI draft has
>Lisp-style comments, where two slashes at the beginning of a line
>mean that the rest of the line is to be treated as a comment.  Is
>this true, or is it just wishful thinking?

I suggest you find a more reliable source of information.

C++ supports //-comment-to-end-of-line as well as C's /*comment*/.
But C++ is not ANSI C.