Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gitpyr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!gatech!gitpyr!robert From: robert@gitpyr.UUCP (Robert Viduya) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: line comments (## vs. //) Message-ID: <386@gitpyr.UUCP> Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 09:37:36 EST Article-I.D.: gitpyr.386 Posted: Wed Nov 28 09:37:36 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 30-Nov-84 04:37:18 EST References: <5367@brl-tgr.UUCP> <7200003@hpdsa.UUCP> <271@ukma.UUCP> <423@kcl-cs.UUCP> <226@desint.UUCP> Organization: Georgia Tech, Atlanta Lines: 21 [] An even better idea is to incorporate pattern matching into the C preprocessor. That way you could define your line comments as: #define '##\(.*\)$' '/* \1 */' or #define '//\(.*\)$' '/* \1 */' robert -- Robert Viduya Office of Computing Services Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA 30332 Phone: (404) 894-4669 ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,masscomp,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!robert ...!{rlgvax,sb1,uf-cgrl,unmvax,ut-sally}!gatech!gitpyr!robert