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From: raymond@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov (Eric A. Raymond)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Lisp-style comments
Message-ID: <1130@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov>
Date: 2 May 89 00:43:22 GMT
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Reply-To: raymond@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov (Eric A. Raymond)
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In article <5330@brunix.UUCP> cs132046@cslab0a.UUCP (Garrett Fitzgerald) writes:
>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.

[I should probably know better, but ...]

That they are useful in one context, isn't diminished by the fact that
they aren't useful in all contexts.



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Eric A. Raymond  (raymond@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov)
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