On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 09:37:04PM -0800, Daniel Rogers wrote: > Also, I see no good reason to remove the C++ style comments. I like > them, I think it is better style, especially for short or same-line > comments. It is part of the C standard. Though it isn't C89, neither > is "const" and I already use that everywhere (and most (all?) major C > compilers parse those style comments). Please explain why you want the > comments changed. I'm not so sure about that. At least as of a couple years ago, the SGI and Sun vendor compilers did support const, but did not like C++ comments. Given that these tend to cost $$$, probably not everyone has the latest version either. I kinda doubt C99 will be ubiquitious till say, 2008. -Manish
