Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Something to use '$' for Message-ID: <4780@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Thu, 13-Dec-84 17:22:27 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.4780 Posted: Thu Dec 13 17:22:27 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 13-Dec-84 17:22:27 EST References: <375@ukma.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 16 > I know! We are wanting something that says "comment till end of line" > but all the suggestions so far go down in flames because that character > is already in use. Is '$' really not used? Could '$$' be used... If you must have a comment-to-EOL convention (great stuff, but it may be a bit late to add it to C), the character(s) used to mark it preferably should be unshifted and near the home row. "//" comes much closer to this than "$$". > ... (Are there any systems where @ > couldn't be used?) Some of my reactionary :-) friends still use @ as line kill... -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry