Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Path: utzoo!telly!problem!druid!darcy
From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Subject: Re: comment style
Message-ID: <1991Jan6.050844.6604@druid.uucp>
Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario
References: <1991Jan04.164355.15674@sco.COM>
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 91 05:08:44 GMT

In article <1991Jan04.164355.15674@sco.COM> Ron Irvine writes:
>	a = 100/*p	/* calculate first factor */
>	    + 25/n;	/* and second factor */
>
>It is incredibly STUPID to have the start of comment token the same
>as a LEGAL combination of other language tokens.
>I have run this program on 4 different C compilers and none of them
>even warned of a potential problem (nested comments).

Then you didn't try Gnu C with the -Wall option:

tst.c:10 warning: `/*' within comment

Turbo C generated a warning as well but it was because p was assigned a
value and then never used.  That's a warning I wish gcc issued.

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