This one bit me today

[Rick Ellis]

In article <1989Oct28.005308.11463 at virtech.uucp> cpcahil at virtech.uucp writes: 

>Your example should not generated an error in any sane implementation.
>Contents of string constants have never been parsed for comment delimeters.

In many C compilers there is a switch to allow nested comments.  This allows
you to comment out large blocks without worrying about imbedded comments.  Of
course it's much easier to just use #ifdef COMMENT.