From: utzoo!decvax!minow
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: Comments in C
Article-I.D.: decvax.345
Posted: Wed Nov 24 19:18:02 1982
Received: Thu Nov 25 10:08:20 1982
References: sri-unix.4367

I would strongly recommend not allowing comments to nest, and printing
a warning message if "/*" is seen within a comment.  This is trivial
to do.

Things would be really nice if C allowed a "comment from here to end
of line" facility.

Martin Minow
decvax!minow