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From: andrew@resam.dk (Leif Andrew Rump)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: comment style
Message-ID: <1991Jan9.101524.19424@resam.dk>
Date: 9 Jan 91 10:15:24 GMT
References: <1991Jan04.164355.15674@sco.COM> <1991Jan05.194321.12428@kithrup.COM> <10690@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
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In <10690@darkstar.ucsc.edu> funkstr@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Larry Hastings) writes:
>As for /* */ style comments, I'd just use /*/ for both ends if I could
>get away with it.  This makes it possible to have a single keymacro that emits
>both the begin and end comment markers.  Comments would now look like:

>	printf("\n");  /*/ I'm commenting this line for no reason /*/

>This works quite well with all the compilers I have handy.  The only reason I
>don't do this is because I'm afraid my coworkers would form a lynch mob.

Well our Sun C compiler which sure _isn't_ ANSI C compatible allow quite a
few things:

#include <stdio.h>

main()
{
  int   my/* Comments is _not_ considered as a white space */var;
/*
/* // It doesn't detect nested comments
  fprintf(stderr, "Hello");
/*/
  fprintf(stderr, " World");
/*/
  fprintf(stderr, "\n");
*/ 
  myvar = 1;
}

>p.s. I'm kidding about the /*/ comment markers, in case you can't tell -- but
>     I may work them in to an obfuscated C code contest entry

Does you C compiler not allow it or do You consider it bad programming?  :-)

The above code compiled on a Sun producing " World" as output. And the
comment toggling is a neat feature!!!  :-)  :-/  :-(  8-(  *-(  [Sigh]


Leif Andrew


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