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From: machaffi@fred.cs.washington.edu (Scott MacHaffie)
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Subject: Re: Re^4: Why nested comments not allowed?
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Date: 23 Feb 90 06:27:17 GMT
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In article <4550@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> dfoster@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Derek R. Foster) writes:
>The only real reasons there are to do this (put /* or */ in strings) are: 

You forgot "writing a C parser which has to recognize comments".

			Scott MacHaffie