warning: multi-line comment (why?)

[Neil Booth]

Jamie Lokier wrote:-

> You didn't read my code did you? :-)

Not closely enough :)

> The coding is deliberate, though you may disagree with my choice.

OK, I'm not of a strong opinion.

> The code to track the column number is very, very rarely called.  You
> have to have an escaped newline at the end of a // comment, followed by
> tab characters to reach that code.  How likely is that?  So forget about
> the overhead; there isn't one.

Yes.

Neil.