From: utzoo!decvax!cca!HOLSTEGE@Cit-20@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: C comments
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.3985
Posted: Fri Nov 12 00:52:40 1982
Received: Mon Nov 15 01:51:19 1982

Date: 30 Oct 1982 1605-PDT
"in comment" at EOF is spectacularly useful. I once neglected to close a
comment and it ate my entire program without sneezing. As for your other
problem, if comments nested, you could comment out a section of code without
worrying about "subcomments" within. I agree with your sentiments about

    bletch: warning, excessively long comment

Someone suggested that to me and its stupid.

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