Re^2: Why nested comments not allowed?

[Leo Hinds]

schaut at cat9.cs.wisc.edu (Rick Schaut) writes:
> ...        In short, a compiler for a language that doesn't allow nested
>comments is _much_ faster than a compiler for a language that allows them.

That is probably true ... but if I remember correctly TC allows you to use 
nested comments (If you tell it to let you) ... and yet TC is not all that slow.


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