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From: diamond@csl.sony.co.jp (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: This one bit me today
Message-ID: <11001@riks.csl.sony.co.jp>
Date: 25 Oct 89 10:31:09 GMT
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In article <41063@bu-cs.BU.EDU> austin@bucsf.bu.edu (Austin Ziegler) writes:

>     Every pascal compiler I have seen accepts both '{' and '(*' as
>characters which start comments.

Yes.  The standard requires it too.

>That means you could have a { (* *) }
>comment or a (* { } *) comment.

No.  {            (*                 *)                 }
   start    part of comment     end of comment      syntax error

    (*            {                  }                  *)
   start    part of comment     end of comment      syntax error

>Beyond that,

and including that,

>Pascal DOES NOT NEST.  Even
>though they are two different sets of characters, they both delimit
>comments.

Exactly.

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