comment style
Tom Jaskiewicz
tj at Alliant.COM
Thu Jan 10 08:15:22 AEST 1991
My first impression of // comments was that they are a harmless addition
to the language. After reading some of the discussion in this newgroup
I now believe that they are not harmless. // comments would add no new
capabilities to the language (comments are already possible), but would
add an interesting set of interactions with other language features.
If you do add // comments to c, what does the following code do?
/* printf("One\n"); /* 1 */
printf("Two\n"); /* 2 */
/* printf("Three\n");
// printf("Four\n"); /* 4 */
printf("Five\n"); /* 5 */
// printf("Six\n"); /* 6
printf("Seven\n"); /* 7 */
/* printf("Eight\n");
// */ printf("Nine\n");
printf("Ten\n"); /* 10 */
This makes // look like a dangerous idea.
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