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From: dalenber@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (Russel Dalenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Re^2: Why nested comments not allowed?
Message-ID: <13769@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 20 Feb 90 18:36:52 GMT
References: <4286@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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In article <4286@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>, barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) writes:
> In article <13706@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> dalenber@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (Russel Dalenberg) writes:
>>And what will you do when trying to comment out code that contains the
>>"end of comment" sequence?
>>	printf("A comment is ended with */");
> 
> 	Oh, come on... this is no problem.  My kids in "Intermediate
> Programming" wrote this for their FIRST assignment in C.  It is easy to
> construct the necessary automaton if you aren't counting nest levels,
> and not hard to add the nesting.

Fine, then enlighten me.  Remember, that quotes have *NO* significance in
comments, so you can't discard the "*/" above because it's inside quotes.


Russel Dalenberg

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