From: utzoo!decvax!cca!fred.umcp-cs@UDel-Relay@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: Comments in C
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.4318
Posted: Tue Nov 23 00:10:14 1982
Received: Wed Nov 24 10:07:36 1982

From:     Fred Blonder <fred.umcp-cs@UDel-Relay>
Date:     18 Nov 82 17:05:00 EST  (Thu)
From: Dan Franklin <dan at BBN-UNIX>

	I'm glad comments don't nest.  If they did, every time I forgot
	a '*/' it would eat up the entire rest of the program, as
	opposed to the current situation where it only eats up until
	the next comment.  This makes it considerably easier to find
	the missing close-comment.  (Especially since I have a program
	which can, among other things, point out embedded comments.)

	    Dan

If the C preprocessor gave you an error message of the form:

	WARNING: nonterminated comment begins on line 376

(a not unreasonable request) It'd be just as easy to find the missing ``*/''
and you wouldn't need to run your program.