Date: Tue, 09 May 95 23:59:42 -0700 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@netcom.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: obrien@leonardo.net, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: This one looks very very suspecious to me.... Message-ID: <199505100659.XAA21829@netcom23.netcom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 May 95 16:44:30 %2B1000." <199505100644.QAA01534@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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> It has to look inside the #ifdef block because it isn't excluded. > Comments affect #ifdef blocks: Note that John Reiser's cpp (the one `true' cpp) didn't do this and the other things you note. That is one of the reasons the Rand editor authors used and got away with #ifdef COMMENT .. #endif to document function interfaces. (Today they would've used noweb or some such lierate programming tool). Any way, this battle was fought and lost during the ANSIfication of C. So it goes.
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