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From: ftw@masscomp.UUCP (Farrell Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Want a way to strip comments from a
Message-ID: <1179@masscomp.UUCP>
Date: 23 Mar 89 14:05:37 GMT
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Reply-To: ftw@quasar.masscomp.UUCP (Farrell Woods)
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In article <9833@megaron.arizona.edu> rupley@arizona.edu (John Rupley) writes:

>This one fails, too.  Try:
>
>	/***/ hi there /**/

Shouldn't it be a requirement that the program to be stripped at least compile?
This example will generate a syntax error.

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