Answers to 'can I nest comments?'

[Boyd Roberts]

In article <24700011 at sunc7> mccaugh at sunc7.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>Just because you received a consensus that comments get translated to white-
>space doesn't make it the standard., which may explain why many compilers
>fail to comply.

They always were white space.  It's just that some varients of cpp mashed
comments into nothing.  You must realise that (historically) cpp removed
comments, hence the -C option.  The language was always clear about
comments being white space.  cpp's bugs/features were another matter.


Boyd Roberts			boyd at necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au

``When the going gets wierd, the weird turn pro...''