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From: geoffw@elecvax.eecs.unsw.oz (Geoff Whale)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.misc
Subject: Re: pxp and null
Message-ID: <3989@elecvax.eecs.unsw.oz>
Date: 19 Apr 88 04:18:39 GMT
References: <252@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk>
Organization: EE and CS, Uni of NSW, Sydney, Australia
Lines: 23
Summary: More interesting pxp behaviour

Try running this self-explanatory Pascal program through pxp:
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	program fred(output);
	{ Guess what - BSD 4.2 pxp prints comments thus:
		printf(commenttext);
	  so guess what happens when it encounters
	  a %% sign, especially one followed by *
	}
	{ The following comment contains %%x and %%*x }
	{ %x %*x }
	begin
	    null
	end.
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I don't know if it's fixed in 4.3 (I doubt it,
only deranged students ever use comments, particularly
with any punctuation :-))

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