Philip Newton wrote: > Well, existing compilers tend to be slow to implement new > standards such as C99.... > > So for my purposes, "standard C" is "ANSI C" i.e. "K&R 2nd ed.". YMMV.
Interestingly, in this particular case, many vendors are very *quick* to implement, often implementing before it happened. :) Translation: The two dominant C compilers, gcc and Microsoft MSVC, both supported // comments in C long before the C99 standard. I suspect this is because they make both C and C++ compilers and it is easier to share a single comment-stripper for both. /-\ndrew
