comment token mistake

Robert J. Drabek robert at arizona.edu
Mon May 1 01:38:53 AEST 1989


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);
>                      ^^^^^
>  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.

(So why do I even bother reading through this group?  Why do some
schools even allow students to post outside of their own buildings?)
-- 
Robert J. Drabek
Department of Computer Science
The University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ  85721



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