comment token mistake

[Robert J Woodhead]

In article <10179 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <2423 at solo5.cs.vu.nl> maart at cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
>>	printf("%d\n", *a/*b);
>>Why didn't dmr take an otherwise illegal token, e.g. `@'?
>Maybe he thought that people who don't use white space deserve to
>be punished.

Actually, dmr could have solved the whole problem by simply defining /* as
the ``Comment Operator'', and assigning it the highest possible precedence.
In this way, ``no white space scum'' (as we affectionately refer to them),
who, as we all know, read a page or two of K&R every night before bedtime
(and wish it was in every motel room in America), would never run into this
vexing problem.

;^)

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