Re^4: Why nested comments not allowed?

chris mcdonald chris at wacsvax.OZ
Mon Feb 19 10:09:56 AEST 1990


dalenber at cbnewsc.ATT.COM (Russel Dalenberg) writes:

>In article <1523 at wacsvax.OZ>, chris at wacsvax.OZ (chris mcdonald) writes:
.....
>	printf("A comment is ended with */");


Ho, hum, now your compiler, lexical analyser can't detect strings either?

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