Nested Comments in C -- A recent experience

[Henry Spencer]

In article <1990Mar11.065712.9798 at usenet.ins.cwru.edu> crds at pyrite.som.cwru.edu (Glenn A. Emelko) writes:
>... 3 hours looking for a "bug" which turned out not to be a "bug" at all;
>rather it went undetected as a programming error BECAUSE our C compiler doesn't
>handle nested comments (like most C compilers don't)...

You mean "because our C compiler doesn't issue a warning when it sees /*
inside a comment".  C COMMENTS DO NOT NEST.  THEY NEVER HAVE.  ANY COMPILER
WHICH "HANDLES" NESTED COMMENTS IS NOT A C COMPILER.  It is legitimate to
complain about a compiler which doesn't flag /* in a comment as a possible
error, but claiming that a C compiler should "handle nested comments" is
just silly; no C compiler can do that.
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