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From: goudreau@dg-rtp.dg.com (Bob Goudreau)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: This one bit me today
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Date: 16 Oct 89 18:49:07 GMT
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In article <244@bbxsda.UUCP> scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker) writes:
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>Another easy pitfall in C is forgetting to close a comment.  On compilers
>that don't nest comments this will cause some code to be swallowed up

Any compiler that allows nesting of comments isn't a C compiler anyway,
by either K&R or ANSI standards.


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