This one bit me today

[Henry Spencer]

In article <2651 at hub.UUCP> dougp at voodoo.ucsb.edu writes:
>>... Supporting nested comments in C constitutes active encouragement
>>of an unhealthy practice, and I recommend against compiler vendors doing it.
>
>So you recomend that compiler vendors make no inovations? ...

I'm fairly sure that Doug agrees with me on this one:  it's highly desirable
for compiler vendors to make *useful* innovations, but nested comments aren't.
They're an attempt to fix something that basically isn't broken.
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