comment token mistake

[Jim Shankland]

In article <2423 at solo5.cs.vu.nl> maart at cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
>The choice of the 2-token sequence `/*' for starting a comment, was a mistake:
>
>	printf("%d\n", *a/*b);
>
>Why didn't dmr take an otherwise illegal token, e.g. `@'?

Perhaps to force people to put at least a minimal amount of white space
into their code!

Jim Shankland
jas at ernie.berkeley.edu

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