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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: This one bit me today
Message-ID: <11379@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 22 Oct 89 08:14:12 GMT
References: <2651@hub.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2651@hub.UUCP> dougp@voodoo.ucsb.edu writes:
-In article <11368@smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes...
->No, to take an analogy:  I wouldn't want to encourage smoking, because it's
->not healthy, even though so long as it's done in private I wouldn't outlaw
->it either.  Supporting nested comments in C constitutes active encouragement
->of an unhealthy practice, and I recommend against compiler vendors doing it.

-So you recomend that compiler vendors make no inovations?

Don't put words into my mouth.  I explained previously why the SPECIFIC
"innovation" of nested comments was unhealthy.