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From: boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz (Boyd Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Answers to 'can I nest comments?'
Message-ID: <1883@necisa.ho.necisa.oz>
Date: 22 Oct 90 02:55:10 GMT
References: <164737@<1990Oct12> <24700011@sunc7>
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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.

They always were white space.  It's just that some varients of cpp mashed
comments into nothing.  You must realise that (historically) cpp removed
comments, hence the -C option.  The language was always clear about
comments being white space.  cpp's bugs/features were another matter.


Boyd Roberts			boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au

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