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From: ddb@ns.network.com (David Dyer-Bennet)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Lisp-style comments
Message-ID: <1338@ns.network.com>
Date: 28 Apr 89 22:09:06 GMT
References: <3851@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <10150@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: ddb@ns.UUCP (David Dyer-Bennet)
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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:
:>Someone told me recently that the latest ANSI draft has
:>Lisp-style comments, 
:I suggest you find a more reliable source of information.

Microsoft C 5.1 has added some sort of comment-to-end-of-line syntax,
I believe.  I think it's also a double slash; I don't use it (at least
yet).  With both them and (according to another followup) some Mac C
adding it, anybody got any idea where the idea came from (since I take it
as given that Doug Gwyn is right about its not being in the ANSI draft)?
Was it perhaps discussed or proposed, and finally turned down after feature
freeze on those particular compilers?

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