C Style commenting

[LooseCaboose]

The // comment is now legal in the C99 standard: http://gcc.gnu.org/c99status.html.

Also, if you are writting a comment remover for C, then it needs to replace comments with a single space for it to be legal, otherwise you can do this.

Code:

int a, b, ab;

a/* Token paste */b = 10;

Which will look like this after removing comments (incorrect):

Code:

int a, b, ab;

ab = 10;

When it should be:

Code:

int a, b, ab;

a b = 10;

Which doesn't compile. This is why the token paste operator (##) got introduced.