dn>  > (For the uninitiated, Dieter expressed no remorse for using

 dn>  > "//" comments in a standard C program, compiled using the

 dn>  > Borland compiler.)

 dn>

 dn> .. a habit which I find particularly annoying. Borland should either

 dn> not allow it, or generate a warning for them by default (like everyone

 dn> else).  Single line comments are an aberration and should NOT be used

 dn> in standard C source code.



Agreed. I'm a bit of an amateur, and I use // comments freely in

C++ code, but even I can see that they violate C's independence of

line breaks. Strange that // was ever born, come to think of it.



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