Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!news-out.readnews.com!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!panix!gordon From: John Gordon Newsgroups: comp.programming,comp.unix.programmer Subject: Re: indent: convert to C-style comments Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:08:55 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <9hhhbcF62fU1@mid.individual.net> <9hvh24F8d8U1@mid.uni-berlin.de> <9hvvhbFsq8U1@mid.uni-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix3.panix.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1320955735 4210 166.84.1.3 (10 Nov 2011 20:08:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:08:55 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: nn/6.7.3 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.programming:1022 comp.unix.programmer:1599 In <9hvvhbFsq8U1@mid.uni-berlin.de> jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) writes: > In comp.unix.programmer John Gordon 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"