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From: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Lisp-style comments
Message-ID: <14292@bfmny0.UUCP>
Date: 29 Apr 89 21:12:22 GMT
References: <3851@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <10150@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1338@ns.network.com> <10173@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff)
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In article <10173@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>...//comments have since been seen in "C with classes" and its current
>descendant C++.  It's convenient if you have it but if you're writing
>C code that needs to be widely portable you dare not use this feature.

If there were a portable public-domain convert program that could
transform //commented C into /* commented */ C, you could hand that out
along with any //code you distributed, and so be sure that everyone
could build your product.  You could even add a 'comment:' entry to
your Makefile to fix everything in place.  Just a thought...
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