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From: tj@Alliant.COM (Tom Jaskiewicz)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: comment style
Message-ID: <4427@alliant.Alliant.COM>
Date: 12 Jan 91 01:44:49 GMT
References: <4423@alliant.Alliant.COM> <10852@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
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In article <10852@darkstar.ucsc.edu> funkstr@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Larry Hastings) writes:
>This makes this example somewhat less compelling -- if you had a program
>which was legal both ways and produced different output, I'd be more
>inclined to agree.  (I can't come up with such an example -- does anyone have
>one?)

Ok...  How about this:


int foo(int a, int b)
{
	return a
//* what kind of comment is this? */	2
//* what kind of comment is this? */
		-b;
}


Not that I normally write code that looks like that.
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