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From: Enache Adrian <enache@rdslink.ro>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9's C compiler and // comments
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Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 04:16:58 +0300
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On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 a.d., David Presotto wrote:
> It accepts it just fine.  You're just defining a macro as
>
> 	"wow!"	// this won't work
>
> and when it gets expanded in the exits you get
>
> void main() { exits("wow!"	// this won't work); }
>
> which eats up the '); }' at the end of the function.

Thanks for clarifying this.
Notice however that this is different from other compilers/preprocessors.
(FWIW, I prefer to stick to old '/* ... */' comments).

Regards,
Adi