Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Base comments (was Re: This one bit me today)
Message-ID: <1989Oct30.012859.5626@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <2651@hub.UUCP> <1651@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> <1989Oct23.161744.29153@utzoo.uucp> <509@sagpd1.UUCP> <2003@zen.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 89 01:28:59 GMT

In article <509@sagpd1.UUCP> jharkins@sagpd1.UUCP (Jim Harkins) writes:
>>Nobody has ever quite gotten around to using `@' in C.
>
>I know, we'll use @ for nested comments!  :-)

No no no -- the nested-comment symbols are "(-:" and ":-)".

In article <2003@zen.co.uk> frank@zen.co.uk (Frank Wales) writes:
>... and <@ (from-the-bottom) can cause a jump to the local FORTRAN
>compiler for the remainder of the program.

And of course, >@ causes a similar jump to the local Ada compiler.
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