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From: jas@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Jim Shankland)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: comment token mistake
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Date: 29 Apr 89 18:29:57 GMT
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In article <2423@solo5.cs.vu.nl> maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
>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. `@'?

Perhaps to force people to put at least a minimal amount of white space
into their code!

Jim Shankland
jas@ernie.berkeley.edu

"Blame it on the lies that killed us, blame it on the truth that ran us down"