//I'll bet \
you \
didn't \
know \
you \
could \
comment \
like \
this \
in \
C/C++/Objective-C
Well, you can. Finding out was a lot of fun, believe me.
At some point, I’m not sure when, I unknowingly put a ‘\’ at the end of a block of // comments. That commented out the method-call the block was referring to. As you might guess from the fact that it had a big comment talking about why it was there, this was an important method call. I spent more time then I want to admit debugging and staring at my code trying to see the problem. Finally I noticed “hey, the color of that code is like a comment, even though it’s not in a comment”.
C Comment Trivia
― Vincent Gable on December 8, 2008
//I'll bet \
you \
didn't \
know \
you \
could \
comment \
like \
this \
in \
C/C++/Objective-C
Well, you can. Finding out was a lot of fun, believe me.
At some point, I’m not sure when, I unknowingly put a ‘\’ at the end of a block of
//comments. That commented out the method-call the block was referring to. As you might guess from the fact that it had a big comment talking about why it was there, this was an important method call. I spent more time then I want to admit debugging and staring at my code trying to see the problem. Finally I noticed “hey, the color of that code is like a comment, even though it’s not in a comment”.