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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: quotes inside #if 0
Keywords: ANSI, comments
Message-ID: <10935@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 5 Sep 89 14:18:54 GMT
References: <2014@munnari.oz.au>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2014@munnari.oz.au> ok@cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe) writes:
>	#if 0
>		<oodles of English text and C examples>
>	#endif
>The compiler sees words like "don't" in the English text and snarls that
>these are unterminated character constants.  This used to be perfectly
>good C, and whatever the reason for ANSI C breaking well-commented programs,
>I personally think the cost is way too high.  Spilled milk, alas.

There were C compilers that would have the same problem with such "code"
before ANSI C.  Generally, it's a problem for tokenizing preprocessors.

>Is there a way of having mixed English text and C fragments (possibly
>including C comment delimiters) in a C program which _will_ work in ANSI C?

/*
	English stuff
		sample_code();	// sample comment
	more English stuff
*/

C is not WEB.