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From: dalenber@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (Russel Dalenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Re^4: Why nested comments not allowed?
Message-ID: <13771@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 20 Feb 90 18:44:15 GMT
References: <1525@wacsvax.OZ>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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In article <1525@wacsvax.OZ>, chris@wacsvax.OZ (chris mcdonald):
> dalenber@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (Russel Dalenberg) writes:
>>	printf("A comment is ended with */");
> 
> Ho, hum, now your compiler, lexical analyser can't detect strings either?

I said: how do you handle the case where the above line of legal C is
commented out.  If it's not commented out, there is no problem.

The "usual" way to comment out such code would be:

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

Since quotes have *NO* significance within comments, the above comment
ends with the first "*/" found; with *both* nested and non-nested comments!


Russel Dalenberg

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