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