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From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: This one bit me today
Message-ID: <8957@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Date: 25 Oct 89 00:49:17 GMT
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From article <41063@bu-cs.BU.EDU>, by austin@bucsf.bu.edu (Austin Ziegler):
> 
>      Every pascal compiler I have seen accepts both '{' and '(*' as
> characters which start comments.  That means you could have a { (* *) }
> comment or a (* { } *) comment.

BRZZZZT. I'm sorry, Mr. Ziegler, but we have some lovely consolation
prizes waiting for you back stage.

In every Pascal I am familiar with, the following is a complete comment:

  { (* *)

The type of comment delimiters does not have to match. _Standard_Pascal_
by Cooper mentions this explictly on page 7, and sez, paraphrasing now,
"Don't DO that, squid-brain."