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From: Paul Shirley <PS AT chocolat DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: c++ comments
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 95 02:23:41 GMT
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           korpela AT albert DOT ssl DOT berkeley DOT edu "Eric J. Korpela" writes:

;)Morten Welinder <terra AT diku DOT dk> wrote:
;)>void
;)>main ()
;)>{
;)>  printf ("%d\n", 10 //* 
;)>                  2 // 1 */
;)>         );
;)>}
;)>
;)>This program should print 10, not 5.
;)
;)Or even better the compiler should print...
;)
;)t1.c: In function `main':
;)t1.c:4: warning: implicit declaration of function `printf'
;)t1.c:6: parse error before `)'
;)
;):)
;)
;)I do agree with your point, though.  The C++ comment convention
;)should be used for C++.  After all, it's a different language.
;)
;)Even though the compiler can understand both [C and C++], one shouldn't
;)mix the two in the same file.  You don't see anyone trying to put
;)Fortran comments in their C code.


What annoys me is the way that there *is* a flag to allow C++ comments,
but its undocumented,unsupported and almost impossible to use!
(And if you don't believe me.. try compiling C++ code with the C-C++
flag and watch it fail to locate any C++ headers, it really is C++ in C)

More to the point, in a world full of PC compilers that default to allowing
this, gcc should at least allow the option. (I'd build it into the gcc
code if I actually used C ;)

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Paul Shirley: SemiProfessional Coffee & Chocolate Taster