This one bit me today

[Norman Diamond]

In article <41063 at bu-cs.BU.EDU> austin at bucsf.bu.edu (Austin Ziegler) writes:

>     Every pascal compiler I have seen accepts both '{' and '(*' as
>characters which start comments.

Yes.  The standard requires it too.

>That means you could have a { (* *) }
>comment or a (* { } *) comment.

No.  {            (*                 *)                 }
   start    part of comment     end of comment      syntax error

    (*            {                  }                  *)
   start    part of comment     end of comment      syntax error

>Beyond that,

and including that,

>Pascal DOES NOT NEST.  Even
>though they are two different sets of characters, they both delimit
>comments.

Exactly.

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