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From: remmers@emunix.emich.edu (John H. Remmers)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Re^2: Why nested comments not allowed?
Message-ID: <894@emunix.emich.edu>
Date: 19 Feb 90 16:48:24 GMT
References: <236100027@prism> <7330017@hpcllak.HP.COM> <1990Feb19.143619.17663@uncecs.edu>
Reply-To: remmers@emunix.emich.edu.UUCP (John H. Remmers)
Organization: Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI 48197
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In article <1990Feb19.143619.17663@uncecs.edu> utoddl@uncecs.edu (Todd M. Lewis) writes:
>In article <7330017@hpcllak.HP.COM> shoe@hpcllak.HP.COM (Jim "Shoe" Schumacher) writes:
...
>>You can have some subtle errors with nested comments. 
>
>You can have subtle errors with "flat" comments.

Considering the subtle and potentially dangerous errors possible
with both nested and unnested comments, I've about decided that
I prefer end-of-line-only comments, a la Ada.  Or are subtle
errors possible here too?
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