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<blockquote><i>I tried to be quite polite. </i></blockquote>
<p>Such a shame. You try sooo hard -- and yet still somehow always fail.
<blockquote><i>I am not surprised that you found it so very hard to admit to even a simple mistake </i></blockquote>
<p>And it comes as no surprise to me that you would try to bluff, bluster and bore your way around that limited imagination with which you view the world, and which you try to impose on others.
<p>Here is a C file that compiles clean:<code>
C:\test>type junk.c
char x[] = "/* comment */";
int n = 1;
C:\test>cl /Wall -c junk.c
Microsoft (R) C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 15.00.21022.08 for x64
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
junk.c
</code>
<p>And here it is with a part of it commented out:<code>
C:\test>type junk.c
/*
char x[] = "/* comment */";
*/
int n = 1;
C:\test>cl /Wall -c junk.c
Microsoft (R) C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 15.00.21022.08 for x64
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
junk.c
junk.c(2) : error C2001: newline in constant
junk.c(2) : error C2059: syntax error : 'string'
junk.c(3) : warning C4138: '*/' found outside of comment
</code>
<p>Just because the C designers made that mistake, it doesn't mean everyone has to. Maybe there is a language out there that allows a block comment to span an arbitrary chunk of valid code without breaking. Maybe, its even closer to you than you think.
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