> I have no idea who came up with that brilliant idea of parsing comments in > the code. It's so simple to make this parser completely fail that it's not
Stephen Johnson (author of the V7 portable C compiler), which is where it's from (the lint tool). He also wrote yacc so he does know a bit about parsers 8). > even funny anymore. The notation in question has been standard in tools like lint since the end of the 1970s Alan
