From: Gennady Bystritksy <gfb@...>
Date: 2005-01-15T06:45:32+09:00
Subject: Re: why dosn't ruby support  // to comment?

Florian Gross wrote:
> Zsban Ambrus wrote:
> 
>> (But note that the // comment could be normal syntax in C too before 
>> it was
>> accepted by C99, for example this expression
>>
>>     9//*foo*/2
>>
>> has different meaning in traditional C and C99.)
> 
> 
> What does it do?
> 

Even when using modern gcc, if you specify option "--traditional", this 
expression will be compiled without errors as "9/2". Without this 
option, gcc interprets "//" as the beginning of a line comment with all 
consequences.

Gennady.