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[Robert Dewar]

Dale Johannesen wrote:

> Yes.  From the user's point of view, the best thing appears to be
> treating backslashes in C++ comments as part of the comment,
> regardless of what follows them; that seems to follow the principle
> of least surprise. That's not standard conforming, and therefore I'm
> not advocating it for gcc, but it probably wouldn't break anything
> outside compiler testsuites.  Maybe this treatment should be made
> standard conforming...?

I agree this would be a far preferable definition, allowing comments
to be continued with a \ seems a truly silly feature.