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From: desnoyer@Apple.COM (Peter Desnoyers)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Lisp-style comments
Message-ID: <29650@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 27 Apr 89 16:48:16 GMT
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Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <10150@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <3851@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> julian@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Julian Cowley) writes:
>> [//-style comments]
>
>C++ supports //-comment-to-end-of-line as well as C's /*comment*/.
>But C++ is not ANSI C.

Not to be confused with the fact that at least one
draft-ANSI-compliant compiler (MPW C) has an option to take such
comments. 

				Peter Desnoyers