Q-> can comments be nested within variable names

[Russell A. Fink]

From: rfink at eng.umd.edu (Russell A. Fink)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c,comp.programmer.c
Subject: Q-> can you nest comments in var names?
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Keywords: C, c, identifiers, nested, comments, Kernighan, Ritchie


By rules of Kernighan and Ritchie, or standard adaptations of the
language, can I nest comments within variable names?
int number;
.
.
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printf ("Value is %d", num/* this is obnoxious */ber);

Is that obnoxious comment permitted, or is it syntactically wrong?
Thanks in advance for response.





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