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From: pausv@sssab.se (Paul Svensson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: This one bit me today
Message-ID: <1989Nov28.145229.27060@sssab.se>
Date: 28 Nov 89 14:52:29 GMT
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In article <1989Oct28.005308.11463@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.uucp writes: 
>Contents of string constants have never been parsed for comment delimeters.

Well, how about this then:

#ifdef notdef
	"!%()[]/*",
#endif

I know at least one compiler that fail to realize that this does not
start a comment.
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