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From: shap@polya.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan S. Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ Comments
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Date: 23 May 89 08:42:29 GMT
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In article <24700@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> chapman@eris.berkeley.edu (Brent Chapman) writes:
>In article <6957@brunix.UUCP> sdm@cs.brown.edu (Scott Meyers) writes:
>>Consider the following C++ source line:
>>
>>    //**********************
>>
>>How should this be treated by the C++ compiler?

According to the C++ lang. definition, this is a single comment
extending to the end of the line.  Remember, however, that a
translator-based implementation applies the C preprocessor first,
which sees the /*... and eliminates it before the compiler gets a shot
at the input.

Moral of the story is: don't do this.  Whether it's right or wrong, it
isn't portable.

Jon