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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: "C's Biggest Mistake"
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2018 12:39:24 -0700
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Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> writes:
> On 2018-04-14, Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> wrote:
>> A PL/I grammar I found says:
>>
>>     comments  = "/*" [ text ] "*/"
>>
>> "text" is not defined, but presumably it can include "*/", which
>> again implies that comments do not nest.
>
> Do you mean "can include", or "can't include"?
> If [text] can include '*/', then what would terminate a [text] ?

Hmm.  I didn't quite think that through.  Taken literally, it would
imply that a comment would be terminated only by the end of the file
(which obviously is not the intent).  I think it's meant to imply
that the first occurrence of "*/" terminates the comment.

It could have been stated more clearly.

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