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From: frank@grep.co.uk (Frank Wales)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: comment style
Message-ID: <1991Jan08.192415.3361@grep.co.uk>
Date: 8 Jan 91 19:24:15 GMT
References: <1991Jan04.164355.15674@sco.COM> <613@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> <1050:Jan701:40:4791@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <616@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Reply-To: frank@grep.co.uk (Frank Wales)
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In article <616@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann)
 writes:
>In article <1050:Jan701:40:4791@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> 
> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
>|4. It is always obvious, to both human eye and mechanical parser, where
>|a // comment ends (viz., the end of the line). It is not so trivial to
>|locate the next */.
>
>My editor has a 'search for text' function.  Doesn't yours?

My editor doesn't have a 'search for text in printouts' function.  Does yours?
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