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From: jon@boulder.UUCP (Jon Corbet)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Standardization questions -- nested comments
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Date: Fri, 12-Oct-84 11:04:19 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 12 11:04:19 1984
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Summary: 

I do not see the need for nested comments.  The old idiom

# ifdef notdef
	.
	commented code
	.
# endif

works wonderfully, no matter how many comments are in the affected area.

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Jonathan Corbet
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Field Observing Facility