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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: comment token mistake
Message-ID: <2423@solo5.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 28 Apr 89 20:58:00 GMT
Organization: V.U. Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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The choice of the 2-token sequence `/*' for starting a comment, was a mistake:

	printf("%d\n", *a/*b);

Why didn't dmr take an otherwise illegal token, e.g. `@'?

PS: `//' will fail too - think about it!
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