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From: diamond@csl.sony.co.jp (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: This one bit me today
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Date: 25 Oct 89 03:49:34 GMT
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In article <41019@bu-cs.BU.EDU> austin@bucsf.bu.edu (Austin Ziegler) writes:
>In Pascal, one of the nicest features for debugging is nested comments.

Sounds like your Pascal compiler is just as badly broken as your C
compiler.  Any pseudo-compiler that reads pseudo-Pascal source but likes
nested comments is not a Pascal compiler, just as with C.
Take your choice; read the old Pascal standard or the new Extended
Pascal standard.  Comments do not nest.

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