[128] in Athena Bugs
Nested comments.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Sommerfeld)
Mon Apr 4 15:15:47 1988
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 88 14:51:51 EDT
From: Bill Sommerfeld <wesommer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: Richard Basch <probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>,
Richard, you are wedged again.
No C compiler handles nested comments; it is explicitly stated in K&R
(page 179 of the first edition, copyright 1978) that comments do not
nest:
2.1 Comments
The characters /* introduce a comment, which terminates which the
characters */. Comments do not nest.
Saber-C warns about the existance of nested comments, but this is to
allow you to detect cases where the programmer left out the closing
delimiter of a different comment, NOT to detect cases where a compiler
for a language other than C will be confused.
- Bill
