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From: byrum@cs.odu.edu (Terry Franklin Byrum)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: comment token mistake
Message-ID: <8707@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Date: 1 May 89 15:58:52 GMT
References: <2423@solo5.cs.vu.nl>
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Va.
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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);
>

	Looks like bad code to me.  Don't you mean it is the mistake of the
person who doesn't use white spaces.  

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

       Your signature says it all!


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