Nested Comments (long summary)

[Henry Spencer]

In article <648 at mwtech.UUCP> martin at mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel) writes:
>... the 'Holy Scriptures'(%) allready have spoken truth.)
>
>(%: Hi Henry, I hope you have no exclusive rights on this phrase :-))

Of course not.  Just send in the royalty check promptly after each use
of it, and no dire harm will befall you. :-)

>To draw the bottom line I would propose: A compiler may well warn
>about the sequence slash-asterix *within* a comment...

The Holy Scriptures (Oct 88 draft) in fact mention this as a common warning.
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