10 Feb
2017
10 Feb
'17
9:30 a.m.
Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Thu, 9 Feb 2017, Dan Cross wrote:
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
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.