Comment Syntax
Doug Gwyn
gwyn at smoke.brl.mil
Fri Nov 9 16:01:04 AEST 1990
In article <HAGERMAN.90Nov7193212 at rx7.ece.cmu.edu> hagerman at ece.cmu.edu (John Hagerman) writes:
>Why didn't // ... newline comments make it into ANSI C?
They weren't in the base document, and one style of comment was deemed to
be sufficient. (Note: I once added support for this feature to the
Ritchie PDP-11 compiler that I maintained, and when a new non-PDP-11
computer was acquired just after I left, the staff at that company was
tasked with either hacking support for // comments into the new compiler
and indeed, into every future compiler they might have to use, or else
converting all the sources into normal C comment style. Fortunately I
had left them with a utility for automatically performing such conversion,
based on an FSA. (It was non-trivial, due to \, ', and " handling.) Thus,
you know that I must like // comments, but on the other hand I learned a
lesson.)
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