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. -- NASA is into artificial | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology stupidity. - Jerry Pournelle | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu