From: utzoo!decvax!cca!gwyn@Brl@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re:  Comments in C
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.4463
Posted: Sun Nov 28 22:55:22 1982
Received: Mon Nov 29 03:18:22 1982

From:     Doug Gwyn <gwyn@Brl>
Date:     28 Nov 82 3:39:55-EST (Sun)
I imagine some folks are tired of the topic, but ...
Here is a real live example of the utility of allowing /* inside comments:

	if ( (ushort)uid == sbuf.st_uid )
		mode <<= 6;		/* check user field only */
	else if ( (ushort)getgid() == sbuf.st_gid )
		mode <<= 3;		/* check group field only */
/*	else
/*		mode <<= 0;		/* check other field only */