comment token mistake

Maarten Litmaath maart at cs.vu.nl
Sat Apr 29 06:58:00 AEST 1989


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. `@'?

PS: `//' will fail too - think about it!
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