defining a comment?
Karl Heuer
karl at haddock.ima.isc.com
Tue Sep 27 03:55:09 AEST 1988
No, there is no legal way in ANSI C (or in K&R C, according to K&R) to "define
a comment". Yes, you can trick the Reiser cpp into doing it anyway. Except
for the Obfuscated C Contest, there is little reason to want to do so.
If you're trying to suppress code which contains comments, the appropriate
notation is "#if 0" ... "#endif". (Or, if your preprocessor is so backward
as to not have #if, "#ifdef notdef" ... "#endif" will do.) Generally, you
should use /* ... */ for natural language commentary, and #if to remove code.
Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl at haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint
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