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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re^2: comment token mistake - ALLRIGHT!
Message-ID: <2443@solo3.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 2 May 89 19:02:14 GMT
References: <2423@solo5.cs.vu.nl> <10551@megaron.arizona.edu>
Organization: V.U. Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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robert@arizona.edu (Robert J. Drabek) writes:
\In article <2423@solo5.cs.vu.nl>, maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
\...
\> 	printf("%d\n", *a/*b);
\...
\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.

Yes! I KNOW it's ugly to cram tokens together... :-(
But my claim is still valid: dmr should have chosen something else.

	1) Someone said `@' was the kill-line character, which is a bug itself
	   - it should have been ^X or ^U or something alike -
	   OK, dmr could have chosen `$'
	   PLEASE, don't let anybody mention ANSI conformance, or grrrrr
	2) As Norman Diamond has pointed out: dmr DID fix `a=-b'...
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 "If it isn't aesthetically pleasing, |Maarten Litmaath @ VU Amsterdam:
  it's probably wrong." (jim@bilpin). |maart@cs.vu.nl, mcvax!botter!maart