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From: smryan@garth.UUCP (s m ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: comment token mistake
Message-ID: <2806@garth.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 89 22:50:06 GMT
References: <2423@solo5.cs.vu.nl> <10551@megaron.arizona.edu>
Reply-To: smryan@garth.UUCP (s m ryan)
Organization: intergraph/apd in sunny california
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>> 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.

Geez. Why design style rules into a language?

A little thought could have avoided this if instead of slavishly following
PL/I.

How many more decades will `a=*b;' be an old-fashioned operator?

>(So why do I even bother reading through this group?  Why do some
>schools even allow students to post outside of their own buildings?)
>-- 
>Department of Computer Science

Why do schools let anyone post? Why not just leave it to us professionals?
-- 
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