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From: terra AT diku DOT dk (Morten Welinder)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: c++ comments
Date: 23 Jun 1995 19:07:35 GMT
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Paul Shirley <PS AT chocolat DOT demon DOT co DOT uk> writes:

>*cpp:
>%{posix:-D_POSIX_SOURCE} -lang-c-c++-comments

>..and from now on C++ comments are legal...

>(Time the FSF *finally* made their *&#$ minds up about this...;)

No, it's not.  It's a really bad idea since it may change the
semantics of a program.

void
main ()
{
  printf ("%d\n", 10 //* 
                  2 // 1 */
         );
}


This program should print 10, not 5.


Morten