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From: Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Which code style do you prefer the most?
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 14:21:38 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 14:16:48 +0000, Scott Lurndal wrote:

> Ar Rakin <rakinar2@onesoftnet.eu.org> writes:
>>bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>>
>>> // isn't devoid of quirks (this is still C after all), for example:
>>>
>>>    fopen(file,"rb");   // open file in \windows\system32\
>>>    fread(...);
>>>
>>> Here, the // line continues onto the next, so that the fread is
>>> commented out. But they are fewer.
>>
>>Interesting. Isn't this considered a compiler bug?
> 
> No, it is standard C line continuation behavior remaining from
> the days of punched cards

and (source code) files with fixed-length records.

> . More useful for strings

and multi-line macros

> and invented prior to the invention of unterminated comments (//).




-- 
Lew Pitcher
"In Skills We Trust"