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From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Answers to 'can I nest comments?'
Message-ID: <18522@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 14 Oct 90 23:46:21 GMT
References: <164737@<1990Oct12> <24700011@sunc7>
Reply-To: karl@ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
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In article <24700011@sunc7> mccaugh@sunc7.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>Just because you received a consensus that comments get translated to white-
>space doesn't make it the standard., which may explain why many compilers
>fail to comply.

False in this specific case (both K&R 1 and ANSI say that comments are
whitespace), but true in general: the language is not defined by a
majority vote.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl@ima.isc.com or harvard!ima!karl), The Walking Lint