Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxn!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!William LeFebvreFrom: William LeFebvre Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: line comments (## vs. //) Message-ID: <6272@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Sat, 1-Dec-84 20:52:50 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.6272 Posted: Sat Dec 1 20:52:50 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 6-Dec-84 05:58:36 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 19 Okay, okay. As John Mackin and about 10 others have already pointed out: #define // /* won't work for reasons more fundamental than the one I stated. Forgive me, I sent the letter before I was fully awake. BUT: even IF "//" was a legal identifier, and even IF you could convince the preprocessor to leave the comments in (which you can do with the preprocessor that pcc uses), it still wouldn't work because the semantics are different. Okay? William LeFebvre Department of Computer Science Rice University