Few mixed things

[Bill Baxter]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Paul D. Anderson
<paul.d.removethis.anderson at comcast.andthis.net> wrote:
> Nick Sabalausky Wrote:
>
>> "BCS" <ao at pathlink.com> wrote in message
>> news:78ccfa2d3e7918cb909fe7a39778 at news.digitalmars.com...
>> > Reply to Denis,
>> >
>> >>> I'd be fine depricating /**/.
>> >>>
>> >> You mean, deprecating /++/?
>> >>
>> >
>> > No, I mean exactly what I said.
>> > /**/ has well defined semantics, changing it will cause problems that
>> > replacing it will not.
>> >
>>
>> Are there any problems you see with it other than porting code to D? (FWIW,
>> I've never come across any code that had a /* in between a /* and */.)
>>
>>
>
> I've seen lots of code that did that.
>
> Now, if you mean code that intentionally did that...

I could see (and maybe have seen?) people using it in comments:

/******/
/*  big
/*  long
/*  comment
/*  box
/*******/

--bb