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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9's C compiler and // comments
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Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 03:23:02 +0200
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> Notice however that this is different from other compilers/preprocessors.
> (FWIW, I prefer to stick to old '/* ... */' comments).

the problem didn't exist till C++ added //

things were not helped by the complexity of the reiser cpp either.