Nested /* */ comments

[Bruno Medeiros]

Deewiant wrote:
> Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>> Why is it that the /* */ comments are not already nestable? Can it be
>> done? It wouldn't even hurt C code porting
> 
> It can be done, but it would hurt porting, which is probably why it's not been
> done. It's not that rare to see multiple "/*" relying on one "*/" to close them
> all. Were they made nesting, only the last would be closed and the code would break.

Hum, that's right, didn't remember about that case, although it seems 
like a bad practice to do that in C/C++ code. I still prefer that /* */ 
were nestable.

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