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Article #2300Re: C needs reliable comments
From: Dan Bernstein
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 1991 15:50
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 1991 15:50
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In article <1991Jan18.100448.17770@gdr.bath.ac.uk> P.Smee@bristol.ac.uk (Paul Smee) writes: > (IMHO) you MUST invent some form of nesting comment in order to get the > effect you want. That has its own set of difficulties, which is why it > is such an uncommon feature. // solves the problem without the difficulties. If you apply // to an already commented-out section of code, you get the same commented-out section of code. ---Dan
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!hsdndev!cmcl2!kramden.acf.nyu.edu!brnstnd From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: C needs reliable comments Message-ID: <18604:Jan1915:50:4891@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> Date: 19 Jan 91 15:50:48 GMT References: <2893@cirrusl.UUCP> <1991Jan18.100448.17770@gdr.bath.ac.uk> Organization: IR Lines: 10