From: arnold@skeeve.com (arnold@skeeve.com)
Subject: [TUHS] // comment in C++
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 02:30:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201702100930.v1A9Ueds017224@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1702101253400.46495@aneurin.horsfall.org>
Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Feb 2017, Dan Cross wrote:
>
> > Well, it wasn't in c89, but it's been part of ANSI C since 1999: almost 20
> > years!
>
> Not in my C book 2nd ed. (ANSI), it isn't...
>
> A2.2 Comments
>
> The characters /* introduce a comment, which terminates with the
> characters */. Comments do not not nest, and they do not occur within
> string or character literals.
>
> There is no mention of "//"; I have the 51st printing, August 2013.
Sadly, although it's a recent printing, the contents date from 1989,
only covering the first standard for C. C99 is the second, and C11 is
the third.
(My first printing of the 2nd edition from 1989 has "draft ANSI" or some
such on the cover. :-)
Arnold
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Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-08 18:06 ron minnich
2017-02-08 18:08 ` A. P. Garcia
2017-02-08 18:17 ` arnold
2017-02-08 23:39 ` Steve Johnson
2017-02-08 23:52 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-02-09 2:11 ` Corey Lindsly
2017-02-09 2:46 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-02-09 2:53 ` Corey Lindsly
2017-02-09 4:38 ` Warner Losh
2017-02-09 2:47 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-02-09 4:55 ` Steve Johnson
2017-02-09 11:59 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-02-09 21:56 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-02-10 0:17 ` Dan Cross
2017-02-10 1:58 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-02-10 2:46 ` Nemo
2017-02-10 2:49 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-02-10 9:30 ` arnold [this message]
2017-02-10 9:19 ` arnold
2017-02-09 12:18 ` Brantley Coile
2017-02-09 13:31 ` Nick Downing
2017-02-08 22:45 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-02-08 22:50 ` Ron Natalie
2017-02-08 23:22 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-02-09 12:12 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-02-09 12:26 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-02-09 14:37 ` Random832
2017-02-09 14:49 ` Random832
2017-02-09 12:31 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2017-02-09 13:07 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-02-08 22:51 ` ron minnich
2017-02-08 23:22 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
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2017-02-09 0:03 ` Paul McJones
2017-02-09 2:28 ` Marc Rochkind
2017-02-09 13:11 ` Tony Finch
2017-02-09 14:44 Noel Chiappa
2017-02-09 16:51 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-02-09 19:36 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-02-09 21:14 Doug McIlroy
2017-02-10 17:39 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
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