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From: mh@wlbr.EATON.COM (Mike Hoegeman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: defining a comment?
Keywords: preprocessor,comments
Message-ID: <23345@wlbr.EATON.COM>
Date: 18 Sep 88 18:25:27 GMT
References: <5438@techunix.BITNET> <13544@mimsy.UUCP> <779@proxftl.UUCP> <13604@mimsy.UUCP> <3999@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: mh@wlbr.eaton.com.UUCP (Mike Hoegeman)
Organization: Eaton IMSD, Westlake Village, CA
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In article <3999@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
 >In article <13604@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
 >>	COMMENT
 >>	text to be commented out
 >>	TNEMMOC
 >>	code
 >>which of course does not work.
 >Well...this may be just nitpicking, but:
 >     #define     COMMENT     "/*"
 >     #define     TNEMMOC     "*/"
 >     COMMENT
 >     text to be commented out
 >     TNEMMOC     /* sdrawkcab "tnemmoc" tsuj si siht */
 >     c code
 >Then use the preprocessor *twice* and you get
 >     c code
 >Which is now ready for compilation.

Maybe I'm missing something here but what the h*ll is wrong with
plain old

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Sheesh!!

-mike