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From: bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Lisp-style comments
Message-ID: <1964@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Date: 1 May 89 18:31:50 GMT
References: <3851@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <10150@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1338@ns.network.com>
Reply-To: bright@dataio.Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
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In article <1338@ns.network.com> ddb@ns.UUCP (David Dyer-Bennet) writes:
>Microsoft C 5.1 has added some sort of comment-to-end-of-line syntax,
>I believe.

It's the // to end of line. It's borrowed from C++. Do not use this feature
if you want your C code to be portable. It's not K&R C or ANSI C.

If you want these features, why not go all the way and get C++?