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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Lisp-style comments
Message-ID: <10157@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 29 Apr 89 01:56:53 GMT
References: <3851@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <10150@smoke.BRL.MIL> <29650@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <29650@apple.Apple.COM> desnoyer@Apple.COM (Peter Desnoyers) writes:
>>> [//-style comments]
>... at least one draft-ANSI-compliant compiler (MPW C) has an option
>to take such comments. 

I don't think it is standard conformant when it is in such a mode.
(Consider stringizing to see how the bahavior could depend on this.)