#793 introduced comments which produce warnings in gcc as they use the blackslash character at the end of a line. The backslash character continues a line which means that:

int x = 3;
// comment \
x = 4;
std::cout << x << std::endl;

would adjoin the line x = 4 to the comment before. The snippet above will print 3, clearly not what was intended. The syntax highlight here in github shows this nicely too.

@kostyantyn and I were discussing to use a unicode character instead, but unfortunately having unicode characters in the codebase screws up some lint scripts :-(

So I am going for the alternative proposed by @kostyantyn , which is to use

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instead for the ascii graphic.

Signed-off-by: Julian Fleischer julian@thirdhash.com