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From: robert@arizona.edu (Robert J. Drabek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: comment token mistake
Summary: answer
Message-ID: <10551@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: 30 Apr 89 15:38:53 GMT
References: <2423@solo5.cs.vu.nl>
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
Lines: 21

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);
>                      ^^^^^
>  vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
>  "If it isn't aesthetically pleasing, |Maarten Litmaath @ VU Amsterdam:
>   it's probably wrong." (jim@bilpin). |maart@cs.vu.nl, mcvax!botter!maart

Your own signature easily addresses the point.  Since it is aesthetically
unpleasing to cram the three tokens together (youdon'tlikethis,doyou?),
you got what you deserved.

(So why do I even bother reading through this group?  Why do some
schools even allow students to post outside of their own buildings?)
-- 
Robert J. Drabek
Department of Computer Science
The University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ  85721