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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Something new in C syntax
Keywords: ifdefs comments
Message-ID: <9522@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 28 Jan 89 03:59:36 GMT
References: <4586@bunker.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <4586@bunker.UUCP> allen@bunker.UUCP (C. Allen Grabert) writes:
>I have since decided that the ifdef's do NOT remove the action of the
>comment delimiters.

Of course not, since comments are processed before preprocessing
directives.  This isn't "new".