Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!ron From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Standardization questions -- nested comments Message-ID: <5210@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Thu, 11-Oct-84 20:24:48 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.5210 Posted: Thu Oct 11 20:24:48 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Oct-84 01:46:23 EDT References: <12904@sri-arpa.UUCP> Organization: Ballistics Research Lab Lines: 16 If you make /* */ nest, then you will incur the wrath of the people who comment code out with the correct and documented behavior of comments. By the way, it isn't that /* */ doesn't nest properly, they don't nest at all. There already is a facility called conditional compilation that does what you want. Like #ifdef NOT_TODAY /* * This code is only to be run on February 31. */ while(n--) n++; #endif -Ron