line comments (## vs. //)

[Tim Maroney]

The objection to:

#define // /*

is not that cpp will gobble the /*.  In fact, most preprocessors allow you
to do the following cute trick:

#define wombat(x) wombats/**/x

so that wombat(fred) expands to wombatsfred.

No; the objections are that "//" is not an identifier, and only identifiers
may be #define'd; and that it doesn't work (as has been pointed out) to give
a line commenting feature.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University Computation Center
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