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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 00:01:29 -0600
From: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com>
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On 11/25/2014 07:44 PM, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 2014-11-25 19:20, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
>>> hen you find any opener, you seek its
>> corresponding closer, and then special-case /* to count any
>> additional /* and look for a */ for each one */ .
>>
>> That's more or less where I was headed.  I just wanted something
>> less brute force :)
>
> This seems to directly conflict with your initial request that
>
>> These may be nested.
>
> If they can't be nested, then it simplifies the problem immensely.
>
> -tkc


What I meant was that, to handle nesting, the brute force approach is just
to just to use a stack to maintain state.

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