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From: phil@RICE.ARPA
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Subject: Unterminated comments
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Date: Sun, 14-Oct-84 22:53:19 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct 14 22:53:19 1984
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From:  William LeFebvre 

> 	(1)  Nested comments /* ... A ... /* ... B ... */ ... A ... */
>	(2)  Comment-to-end-of-line // ...
> (1) would also give an "unterminated comment starting on line nnn" error
> if a close-comment */ were omitted, thereby addressing in a different
> way the issue this note is a response to.

NO!!!  You do NOT want to do that.  Many people (myself included) write
block comments that purposefully span several lines.  I like that style.
DO NOT force me to change it!  I don't even want to see warning messages
about it.

/*
 *  William LeFebvre
 *  Department of Computer Science
 *  Rice University
 *  
 */