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Sujet : Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments?
De : cross (at) *nospam* spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross)
Groupes : comp.lang.c
Date : 23. Mar 2024, 00:16:58

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In article <86edc2l7lw.fsf@linuxsc.com>,
Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> wrote:

cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) writes:
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In article <86r0g3liii.fsf@linuxsc.com>,
Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> wrote:
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scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
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The original comment delimiters in C were copied from PL/I: everything
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Cite?
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Seen in the B language manual:
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Comments are delimited as in PL/I by /* and */.
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https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/kbman.html
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Note that this style of commenting was not present in
B's precursor language, BCPL.
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It would be appropriate to qualify this statement with some kind
of timeframe as BCPL is still used (albeit not widely, I assume).
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The PL/I style of commenting was not present in BCPL at the time B
was being defined.

Correct.

- Dan C.

Date	Sujet	#	Auteur
22 Mar 24	Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments?	2	Tim Rentsch
23 Mar 24	Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments?	1	Dan Cross