On Oct 25, 2005, at 5:40 PM, Joe Buck wrote:
1) a C++ comment
But case 1 is the nasty one, as users think they can put anything in a comment. A backslash at the end is likely to be an accident, since just starting the next line with a // is easy enough.
Be interesting to see the results of a grep on a large software base. Does anyone have ready access to, say a linux distro handy? Of all the hits I know about, none of them were an accident.