Re^4: Why nested comments not allowed?

[Russel Dalenberg]

In article <1525 at wacsvax.OZ>, chris at wacsvax.OZ (chris mcdonald):
> dalenber at cbnewsc.ATT.COM (Russel Dalenberg) writes:
>>	printf("A comment is ended with */");
> 
> Ho, hum, now your compiler, lexical analyser can't detect strings either?

I said: how do you handle the case where the above line of legal C is
commented out.  If it's not commented out, there is no problem.

The "usual" way to comment out such code would be:

/*	printf("A comment is ended with */"); */

Since quotes have *NO* significance within comments, the above comment
ends with the first "*/" found; with *both* nested and non-nested comments!


Russel Dalenberg

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