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From: dierks@ndcvb.cc.nd.edu (Timothy Dierks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MPW 2.0 and 3.0/3.1
Message-ID: <198@ndcvb.cc.nd.edu>
Date: 9 May 90 17:13:58 GMT
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From article <3238@rodan.acs.syr.edu>, by dinapoli@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Ron DiNapoli):
> Anybody see the problem?  In MPW C 3.0 and later, the '//' symbol stands
> for a comment.  It also seems that the preprocessor is unable to detect
> that this particular comment character is occurring within a string.  
> 
> Note how in the first occurrance of the PRINTIT macro, the text between the
> /* */ comment characters does not appear.  This tells me that in the 3.0/3.1
> C preprocessor, comments are "taken out" regardless of where they appear.

  And he quoteth from the book of Kernighan and Ritchie, Appendix A,
  Section A2.2:
    The characters /* introduce a comment, which terminates with the
    characters */.  Comments do not nest, and they do not occur within
    string or character literals.
  Here endeth the lesson.

Tim Dierks
dierks@ndcvb.cc.nd.edu
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