>>> And there remains issue with "nested" comments. >>> > MD> No issue; no nesting. Ergo, I'm not changing it. In reply, rather than > MD> quoting boring old pre-ISO C compiler options, please instead trace > support > MD> back to the far more enriching Magna Carta. King John of England's > > "Enriching Magna Carta"? Sorry, Michael, you as always very vivid and, > thus, very hard to understand (by English non-native). :( >
I don't have my copy of Kernighan & Ritchie's "C Programming Language (ed. 2)" with me to show you, but here is an excerpt from ISO/IEC 9899:TC2 WG14/N1124 Committee Draft - May 6, 2005 (6.4.9 Comments, page 66) that says the same thing: > Except within a character constant, a string literal, or a comment, > the characters /* > introduce a comment. The contents of such a comment are examined only > to identify > multibyte characters and to find the characters */ that terminate it. With a footnote that says simply: "Thus, /* ... */ comments do not nest." Some pre-ISO C compilers would barf if you had commented-out a statement like so: /* i++; /* increment the index */ ..because the compiler would see "/*" after "/*" and think that it should try to nest the comments. But in fact, according to ISO, comments CANNOT be nested and it doesn't matter what else you have after "/*" up until the next "*/". That's how I've always known C comments to work, after ISO. Although I hear King John of England only programmed in LISP, so nested C comments weren't a problem for him. :-) -jh -- I'm sorry my president's an idiot. I didn't vote for him. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
