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From: abcscnuk@csuna.csun.edu (Naoto Kimura)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Turbo Pascal bug? or feature?
Message-ID: <1964@csuna.csun.edu>
Date: 14 May 89 14:06:33 GMT
References: <24349@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: abcscnuk@csuna.csun.edu (Naoto Kimura)
Organization: CSU Northridge
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In article <24349@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> ephram@violet.berkeley.edu () writes:
>Here is what I consider a minor bug with turbo pascal (V.5.0 maybe 4 others
>untested).  It has to do with comments.  The basic problem is with nesting
>comments of the same "type", ie { or (*.  The code that follows illustrates
>some of my gripe.
>
> ... (examples deleted) ...
>
>Ephram Cohen                              ephram@violet.berkeley.edu

It isn't a bug...  It differentiates between the different types of
comments ( {blah} vs (*blah*) ).  This feature allows nesting of
comments (by using a different type of comment around the other
comments.  This of course, is highly non-standard (standard says that
the two comment types are equivalent, so you can have a comment that
looks like {this*) or (*even this} ).  Besides, nested comments are
non-standard anyway.

If you're resorting to commenting out sections of code for some
purpose, why not use the conditional compilation feature of Turbo
Pascal?

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