comment token mistake
s m ryan
smryan at garth.UUCP
Thu May 4 08:50:06 AEST 1989
>> The choice of the 2-token sequence `/*' for starting a comment,
>> was a mistake:
>>
>> printf("%d\n", *a/*b);
>> ^^^^^
>> vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
>> "If it isn't aesthetically pleasing, |Maarten Litmaath @ VU Amsterdam:
>> it's probably wrong." (jim at bilpin). |maart at cs.vu.nl, mcvax!botter!maart
>
>Your own signature easily addresses the point. Since it is aesthetically
>unpleasing to cram the three tokens together (youdon'tlikethis,doyou?),
>you got what you deserved.
Geez. Why design style rules into a language?
A little thought could have avoided this if instead of slavishly following
PL/I.
How many more decades will `a=*b;' be an old-fashioned operator?
>(So why do I even bother reading through this group? Why do some
>schools even allow students to post outside of their own buildings?)
>--
>Department of Computer Science
Why do schools let anyone post? Why not just leave it to us professionals?
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