On 18 Feb 02, at 10:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Philip Newton wrote: > > Well, existing compilers tend to be slow to implement new > > standards such as C99.... > > > > So for my purposes, "standard C" is "ANSI C" i.e. "K&R 2nd ed.". YMMV. > > Interestingly, in this particular case, many vendors are very > *quick* to implement, often implementing before it happened. :) > > Translation: The two dominant C compilers, gcc and Microsoft MSVC, > both supported // comments in C long before the C99 standard. > I suspect this is because they make both C and C++ compilers > and it is easier to share a single comment-stripper for both.
Possible. I know that Borland Turbo C on the PC supported //-style comments in 1992; however, that was also a combined C/C++ compiler (at least the version I had -- earlier versions did C only and I don't know whether they supported //-style comments). But remember that "all the world's not a gcc". I don't know how much luck you'd have an Solaris's or HP-UX's cc. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>