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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ Comments
Message-ID: <9383@alice.UUCP>
Date: 22 May 89 23:05:28 GMT
References: <6957@brunix.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner NJ
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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?

It's a // comment followed by a bunch of *'s.

However, many C preprocessors strip comments out of your
program and also don't recognize C++ comments.  Thus by the
time the C++ compiler sees this, it looks like this:

	/

AT&T does not supply a preprocessor with its C++ translator,
any more than it supplies a linker, assembler, or C compiler.
It's up to whoever ports C++ to deal with the preprocessor.
-- 
				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark@europa.att.com