Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: defining a comment?
Message-ID: <1988Sep23.174853.6447@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <5438@techunix.BITNET> <844@vsi.UUCP> <855@vsi.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 88 17:48:53 GMT

In article <855@vsi.UUCP> friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) writes:
>> # define	STARTCOM	//**/*
>I'll be durned, it doesn't work.  The first part does indeed
>define STARTCOM to be /*...

You can't depend on this, I'm afraid.  In fact, it is not true in ANSI C:
the /**/ comment turns into a space, not into nothing.
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