dvk (12/01/82)
In reference to "comments to the end of a line" (ihuxx!ignatz, Dave Ihnat):
What do you mean "I am not supposed to know about that". I consider any
part of the C compiler (be that cpp, c0, c1, or c2) to be as much of the
whole as any other part.
The pre-processor ONLY knows about lines, 'cuz you have to "continue" them
when you are in a #define (via. "\"). Since cpp eliminates all comments
to speed up I/O in the later passes, why NOT have comments to the end of line?
Bliss-32 (a language I consider FAR superior to C) allows single line comments
(everything after a "!" is ignored), and multi-line comments (via "%(" and ")%")
So why not C? You could use some silly overloading of current lexemes (for
example: "!!" or "%%").
-Dan Klein, Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh