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From: kenny@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Nested comments yet again.
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Date: 23 Feb 90 17:41:17 GMT
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Nf-From: m.cs.uiuc.edu!kenny    Feb 22 21:43:00 1990


The big annoyance with nested comts to me would be the following:

(a) Quoted strings must be recognized; "/*" wothin a string is a
common practice.

(b) Given this, single-quoted strings will probably be recognized as
well, for the sake of consistency.

(c) /* This won't work. */

Given that #ifdef NEVER ... #endif can serve the same purpose, then
what's the point?

A-T