Answers to 'can I nest comments?'

[Karl Heuer]

In article <24700011 at sunc7> mccaugh at sunc7.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>Just because you received a consensus that comments get translated to white-
>space doesn't make it the standard., which may explain why many compilers
>fail to comply.

False in this specific case (both K&R 1 and ANSI say that comments are
whitespace), but true in general: the language is not defined by a
majority vote.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl at ima.isc.com or harvard!ima!karl), The Walking Lint