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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Q-> can you nest comments in var names?
Keywords: C, c, identifiers, nested, comments, Kernighan, Ritchie
Message-ID: <14090@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 11 Oct 90 13:21:48 GMT
References: <1990Oct10.211829.3168@eng.umd.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1990Oct10.211829.3168@eng.umd.edu> rfink@eng.umd.edu (Russell A. Fink) writes:
>... can I nest comments within variable names?
>printf ("Value is %d", num/* this is obnoxious */ber);

That's not right -- a comment is replaced with in effect a single space.