This one bit me today

[Henry Spencer]

In article <1501 at utkcs2.cs.utk.edu> battle at alphard.cs.utk.edu (David Battle) writes:
>What SHOULD the following program do?  Why?

In ANSI C, the answer is clear:  deletion of comments is done before
preprocessing.  In pre-ANSI C, the answer is mumble mumble mumble and
you'd better not depend on it either way.
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