Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnewsc!dalenber
From: dalenber@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (Russel Dalenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Re^2: Why nested comments not allowed?
Message-ID: <13706@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 18 Feb 90 05:07:27 GMT
References: <1523@wacsvax.OZ>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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In article <1523@wacsvax.OZ>, chris@wacsvax.OZ (chris mcdonald) writes:

> I don't know why they are not supported but agree that they are damn
> useful. They are easy to parse in syntactically correct programs (ever
> heard of counting?) and, after all, the computer/compiler is supposed to
> do what we tell it, not for us to bow down and minimize its work.
> If its really too hard for you to count comments I'll sell you a little
> parser for a ridiculous amount.

And what will you do when trying to comment out code that contains the
"end of comment" sequence?

	printf("A comment is ended with */");


Russel Dalenberg

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