Base comments (was Re: This one bit me today)

[Henry Spencer]

In article <509 at sagpd1.UUCP> jharkins at sagpd1.UUCP (Jim Harkins) writes:
>>Nobody has ever quite gotten around to using `@' in C.
>
>I know, we'll use @ for nested comments!  :-)

No no no -- the nested-comment symbols are "(-:" and ":-)".

In article <2003 at zen.co.uk> frank at zen.co.uk (Frank Wales) writes:
>... and <@ (from-the-bottom) can cause a jump to the local FORTRAN
>compiler for the remainder of the program.

And of course, >@ causes a similar jump to the local Ada compiler.
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