Re: indent: convert to C-style comments

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From	John Gordon <gordon@panix.com>
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Subject	Re: indent: convert to C-style comments
Date	Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:08:55 +0000 (UTC)
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In <9hvvhbFsq8U1@mid.uni-berlin.de> jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) writes:

> In comp.unix.programmer John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> wrote:
> > In <9hvh24F8d8U1@mid.uni-berlin.de> jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) writes:

> > > How could "//" appear in a character constant?

> > Multibyte characters?  Character digraphs and trigraphs?

> Can you give me an example of a multibyte character constant
> that could contain two slashes in a row? I've not much expe-
> rience with multibyte characters and can't come up with one.

I don't know if there are any actual multibyte characters that contain
two slashes.  I was just providing general examples of contexts where
such a thing could conceivably happen.

-- 
John Gordon                   A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs
gordon@panix.com              B is for Basil, assaulted by bears
                                -- Edward Gorey, "The Gashlycrumb Tinies"

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indent: convert to C-style comments "Mark" <mark_cruzNOTFORSPAM@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-03 16:20 -0400
  Re: indent: convert to C-style comments Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-04 20:08 +1300
    Re: indent: convert to C-style comments scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2011-11-04 16:46 +0000
    Re: indent: convert to C-style comments "Mark" <mark_cruzNOTFORSPAM@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-05 16:00 -0500
      Re: indent: convert to C-style comments Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-06 09:05 +1300
        Re: indent: convert to C-style comments "Mark" <mark_cruzNOTFORSPAM@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-05 16:12 -0500
      Re: indent: convert to C-style comments Thad Smith <ThadSmith@acm.org> - 2011-11-06 18:54 -0600
        Re: indent: convert to C-style comments jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2011-11-09 14:29 +0000
          Re: indent: convert to C-style comments John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2011-11-09 17:07 +0000
            Re: indent: convert to C-style comments jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2011-11-09 18:36 +0000
              Re: indent: convert to C-style comments John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2011-11-10 20:08 +0000
                Re: indent: convert to C-style comments Doug McIntyre <merlyn@geeks.org> - 2011-11-10 20:21 +0000
                Re: indent: convert to C-style comments jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2011-11-10 21:04 +0000
          Re: indent: convert to C-style comments Thad Smith <ThadSmith@acm.org> - 2011-11-10 20:47 -0700

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