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From: dave@qtlon.UUCP
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Subject: Re: C parsing: significance of spaces, and the meaning of "+++"
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Date: Sat, 5-May-84 09:38:48 EDT
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Posted: Sat May  5 09:38:48 1984
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Although I agree that /* versus / * is a niggly problem, it is NOT
an ambiguity in the reference manual, which states (fairly early on)
that if the program has been parsed up to a certain point, then the
next token is considered to be the longest possible sequence which
could be a token.

(This also covers the +++ problem as well.)

			*++*argv rules OK,
				Dave Lukes (<U.K.>!ukc!qtlon!dave)