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From: rick@conexch.UUCP (Rick Ellis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: This one bit me today
Summary: nested comments
Message-ID: <41631@conexch.UUCP>
Date: 24 Nov 89 22:38:56 GMT
References: <2739@hub.UUCP> <1989Oct28.005308.11463@virtech.uucp>
Reply-To: rick@ofa123FIDONET.ORG (Rick Ellis)
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In article <1989Oct28.005308.11463@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.uucp writes: 

>Your example should not generated an error in any sane implementation.
>Contents of string constants have never been parsed for comment delimeters.

In many C compilers there is a switch to allow nested comments.  This allows
you to comment out large blocks without worrying about imbedded comments.  Of
course it's much easier to just use #ifdef COMMENT.