Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!ima!ISM780B!jim From: jim@ISM780B.UUCP Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Re: line comments (## vs. //) Message-ID: <124@ISM780B.UUCP> Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 15:36:44 EST Article-I.D.: ISM780B.124 Posted: Wed Nov 28 15:36:44 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 29-Nov-84 06:00:39 EST Lines: 13 Nf-ID: #R:drutx:-146100:ISM780B:25500080:000:492 Nf-From: ISM780B!jim Nov 27 11:33:00 1984 >Couldn't you use something like > > # define // /* > >to accomplish this. This would also allow you to make anything else comment >delimiters rather easy. Seems to simply of a solution, what's wrong with it???? a) // is not a legal macro name b) /* introduces a comment even for cpp, so it can't be part of defined text c) the desired semantics for // are different (comment terminated by newline) from those of /* (terminated by */) -- Jim Balter, INTERACTIVE Systems (ima!jim)