-spc (And least you think otherwise, there's plenty to hate in C,
but I'm
afraid I've lived with it long enough to subconsciously work around
its quirks ... )
Oh, let's dredge up some luscious C hate.
/* Comments /* Don't nest */
Which is doubly hateful when some bugger does a compiler that
implements nested comments, so you have to start finding places where
someone's commented out a declaration like so:
/* int i; /* index */
And change it to
#if 0
int i; /* index */
#endif
Except that another bugger has done this with a compiler that does
nested comments somewhere else so their code looks like
/* int ilTruc; / * il'Tuccadore (the man of 1000 faces) */
and now you have
#if 0
int ilTruc; / * il'Tuccadore (the man of 1000 faces) */
#endif
Which works fine (except that people who name variables after obscure
jokes in Discworld books need pointy hate inserted nasally), except
when you hit a compiler that follows Allman's design rather than
Ritchie's and tokenizes the code inside #if...#endif instead of
whacking it out in the preprocessor, and that "'" gives it conniptions.
So now you have to go back through the code again...
BUT AT LEAST NOBODY OUT THERE IS SAYING THAT THIS IS A GOOD IDEA
I hope.
