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From: barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Re^2: Why nested comments not allowed?
Message-ID: <4292@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 21 Feb 90 04:39:34 GMT
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In article <4509@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> dfoster@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Derek R. Foster) writes:
>It seems to me that putting a start or end
>comment in a string literal (like above) is a HORRIBLE programming practice
>whether you can have nested comments or not.

	Oh yes?  Well, what if you are writing a C program that generates
C code as its output?  This is a common practice.

                                                        Dan

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