Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site ic-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!mcvax!ukc!kcl-cs!ic-cs!ian From: ian@ic-cs.UUCP (Ian W. Moor) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Re: Re: Standardization questions -- Message-ID: <224@ic-cs.UUCP> Date: Sun, 2-Dec-84 12:04:37 EST Article-I.D.: ic-cs.224 Posted: Sun Dec 2 12:04:37 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Dec-84 03:15:23 EST References: <5367@brl-tgr.UUCP>, <7200003@hpdsa.UUCP> <305@ukma.UUCP> Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London Lines: 19 [it went thataway] >From: sambo@ukma.UUCP (Samuel A. Figueroa) > >Perhaps instead of using '##' to indicate that the rest of the line is a >comment (since, as someone pointed out, this might conflict with at least >one preprocessor), '//' could be used. The preprocessor already recognizes >'/*', so adding recognition of '//' might not be too unreasonable. Wait a minute ! What other wondeful language (?) uses /* and // ? All we need now is DD and EXEC statements :-) -- Ian W. Moor {mcvax,vax135}!ukc!west44!ic-cs!im Dept of Computing Imperial College "The squire on a hippopotamus is equal to 180 Queen's Gate the son of the other two squires" London SW7 2BZ