Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!modcomp!joe
From: joe@modcomp.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: This one bit me today
Message-ID: <90700005@modcomp>
Date: 23 Oct 89 03:30:00 GMT
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Nf-From: modcomp.UUCP!joe    Oct 22 23:30:00 1989


>>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? You would not

Now, now, not supporting nested comments is *not* the same as not supporting
innovation.  For one thing, the change is not upwards compatible with the
standard -- which, in my opinion, kills the idea right there.
--
joe korty			"for every vengence there is an equal and
uunet!modcomp!joe		opposite revengence." (from Cartoon Laws)