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Article #2303Re: C needs reliable comments
From: David W. Lauderback
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 1991 11:37
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 1991 11:37
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In article <2893@cirrusl.UUCP> dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) writes: >C badly needs a way of commenting out a block easily. It needs >something like this: > >#comment /* begins in column 1; everything following is a comment */ >... stuff to be commented out ... >... nac esu #tnemmoc ot peek logla sersu yppah ... >#endc /* first occurrence of #endc in column one ends #comment block */ > >The #comment...#endc blocks do not nest, and are required to be in >column 1, thus avoiding all necessity for parsing tokens. What's nice But if they don't nest, you've defeated the purpose because there may be a small section you've already commented out and now want to comment out a much larger area (for a while). Should I have to remove the #endc that already exists? -- David W. Lauderback (a.k.a. uunet!cai!davel) Century Analysis Incorporated Disclaimer: Any relationship between my opinions and my employer's opinions is purely accidental.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!cai!davel From: davel@cai.uucp (David W. Lauderback) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: C needs reliable comments Message-ID: <1991Jan20.113722.16735@cai.uucp> Date: 20 Jan 91 11:37:22 GMT References: <2893@cirrusl.UUCP> Reply-To: davel@cai.UUCP (David W. Lauderback) Organization: Century Analysis Incorporated Lines: 21