Lisp-style comments
Gordon C. Galligher
gorpong at telxon.UUCP
Wed May 10 04:03:41 AEST 1989
In article <964 at sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk>, jeremyr at cs.qmc.ac.uk (Jeremy Roussak) writes:
>
> > [much talk of // comments]
>
> [BCPL stuff on // comments]
>
> On a slightly different note, why did the same people choose to make
> BCPL's break and endcase both be called break in C, losing the ability
> to break out of loops while inside a case clause?
>
> Jeremy Roussak
Jeremy, you can always break out of a loop from within a case. C does allow
the (-: goto :-).
-- Gordon.
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