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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: C needs reliable comments
Message-ID: <18604:Jan1915:50:4891@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 19 Jan 91 15:50:48 GMT
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In article <1991Jan18.100448.17770@gdr.bath.ac.uk> P.Smee@bristol.ac.uk (Paul Smee) writes:
> (IMHO) you MUST invent some form of nesting comment in order to get the
> effect you want.  That has its own set of difficulties, which is why it
> is such an uncommon feature.

// solves the problem without the difficulties. If you apply // to an
already commented-out section of code, you get the same commented-out
section of code.

---Dan