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From: dougp@voodoo.ucsb.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: This one bit me today
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Date: 27 Oct 89 02:38:17 GMT
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In article <509@sagpd1.UUCP>, jharkins@sagpd1.UUCP (Jim Harkins) writes...
>In article <1989Oct23.161744.29153@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>>Nobody has ever quite gotten around to using `@' in C.
> 
>I know, we'll use @ for nested comments!  :-)
> 
>jim
>"Any day now we're gonna have the big one and everything east of the San
>Andreas fault will slide into the Atlantic."
I have changed my mind on wanting nested comments, someone gave a good
reason why not to use them:

/*printf("the comment delimiter in C is /* \n"); */

would generate an error. The best solution would be to have /* /* */
generate a warning.

Douglas Peale