This one bit me today

[Chip Salzenberg]

According to austin at bucsf.bu.edu (Austin Ziegler):
>In Pascal, one of the nicest features for debugging is nested comments.

Of course, let us not forget that Pascal has two kinds of comment
delimiters, (* *) and { }, and that nesting { { } } or (* (* *) *) doesn't
work.  C has only /* */.

>This is provided as a *Debugging* feature *only* in Turbo C.  Nowhere does
>Borland state that you should use that feature in normal programming.

Nested comments are a _bug_, not a feature, Borland apologists
notwithstanding.

>I *have* found the need to comment it out because I am not fully
>acquainted with all of the features of the preprocessor commands.

Ignorance of the language is no excuse.  All that's needed is:

	#if 0
		/* never do this */
		system("delete *.*");
	#endif

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