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From: cs132046@brunix (Garrett Fitzgerald)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Lisp-style comments
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Date: 1 May 89 16:19:38 GMT
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There is one problem with using //. If you have multi-line comments, and you
need to do a big addition in the middle, you have to do a lot of reformatting.
With /*...*/, there is no problem with this.
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