Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Nested Comments (long summary)
Message-ID: <1990Feb22.195335.14690@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1523@wacsvax.OZ> <13706@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> <4286@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> <648@mwtech.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 90 19:53:35 GMT

In article <648@mwtech.UUCP> martin@mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel) writes:
>... the 'Holy Scriptures'(%) allready have spoken truth.)
>
>(%: Hi Henry, I hope you have no exclusive rights on this phrase :-))

Of course not.  Just send in the royalty check promptly after each use
of it, and no dire harm will befall you. :-)

>To draw the bottom line I would propose: A compiler may well warn
>about the sequence slash-asterix *within* a comment...

The Holy Scriptures (Oct 88 draft) in fact mention this as a common warning.
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