On Thu, 9 Feb 2017, Dan Cross wrote:
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.
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