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From: scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: This one bit me today
Message-ID: <255@bbxsda.UUCP>
Date: 17 Oct 89 14:37:44 GMT
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Reply-To: scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker)
Organization: Basis International,  Albuquerque, NM
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In article <1901@xyzzy.UUCP> goudreau@rtp48.dg.com (Bob Goudreau) writes:
 >In article <244@bbxsda.UUCP> scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker) writes:
 >>
 >>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.

Believe it or not - that is a command line switch on some C compilers.


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Scott Amspoker
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