Re: Syntax of Comments (was: language design tradeoffs)

crowl@jade.cs.orst.edu (Lawrence Crowl)
Thu, 24 Sep 1992 06:09:14 GMT

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From: crowl@jade.cs.orst.edu (Lawrence Crowl)
Organization: Oregon State University, Corvallis Oregon
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1992 06:09:14 GMT
References: 92-09-048 92-09-144
Keywords: C, parse, syntax

moss@cs.umass.edu writes:
>..., but the problem that Jim Giles points out
>comes from treating something like /* .... /* .... */ as a valid comment.
>Some languages (notably Modula-3) allow comments to be NESTED, so that one
>can comment out a range of code that itself contains comments, without
>getting unexpected results.


Nested comments have the same problem as #ifdef, I can't tell by looking at
a chunk of code that it is commented out. I have to search upwards in the
text for a begin comment marker. Comments that only act on the current line
are easy to find.
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