Nested Comments in IBM C Set/2

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From: Tim Francis
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:09

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In article <c9e-aw.721870314@volga.Berkeley.EDU>,
c9e-aw@volga (Claudio Fahey) writes:
>
>Does anybody know if the IBM C Set/2 compiler can be
>setup to support nested comments?  It sure is a pain
>uncommenting my comments when I want to comment a large
>section of code.
>

Nested comments are not supported by ANSI-conforming compilers.
If you wish to comment out large blocks of code, try surrounding it
by #if 0   and   #endif -- that will work around comments.   -tim

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From: francis@vnet.ibm.com (Tim Francis)
Message-ID: <19921116.090951.953@almaden.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 12:09:40 EST
Subject: Nested Comments in IBM C Set/2
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Organization: IBM Canada Lab, WorkFrame/2 development
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