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From: gaynor@athos.rutgers.edu (Silver)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: language commenting constructs
Message-ID: <Mar.11.18.24.04.1989.18285@athos.rutgers.edu>
Date: 11 Mar 89 23:24:05 GMT
Reply-To: gaynor@rutgers.edu
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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I find the inability to nest comments (in langauges which provide delimited
comments) very unfriendly.  Whoever came up with the bright idea that this is a
`feature'?  Probably some lazy language designer who wrote a baby compiler to
test a new language, and found that it was slightly easier for him to implement
it without nesting, so he defined it thus.  A black day.  This has led to more
bugs than I care to remember or imagine.  When was the last time this dead
horse was kicked?  I think it's time to kick it again, given the number of
postings about comments causing errors.

Regards, [Ag] gaynor@rutgers.edu