Comment Syntax

[Peter da Silva]

In article <1990Nov16.172018.19638 at zoo.toronto.edu> henry at zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
> The intent is that it be possible to split lines mechanically, e.g. to deal
> with machines with stupid line-length limits, and hence it is desirable to
> have backslash-newline processing first so that you don't have to tokenize
> the source to decide where line breaks are safe.

Ok, that makes sense.

Well in that case what's the problem with // .... .... \
.... ...
being a comment? If /\
* ... .... ... */ is accepted, anything goes...
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