• Bruno Medeiros (8/8) Mar 04 2006 Ok, this might be the most simple feature request ever, but here goes.
• Deewiant (4/6) Mar 04 2006 It can be done, but it would hurt porting, which is probably why it's no...
• Bruno Medeiros (7/14) Mar 05 2006 Hum, that's right, didn't remember about that case, although it seems

Bruno Medeiros <daiphoenixNO SPAMlycos.com> writes:

Ok, this might be the most simple feature request ever, but here goes.
Why is it that the /* */ comments are not already nestable? Can it be 
done? It wouldn't even hurt C code porting, and might render /+ +/ 
useless, (or keep both comments so that /* */ and /+ +/ can be used for 
different types of commenting)

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Deewiant <deewiant.doesnotlike.spam gmail.com> writes:

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.

Bruno Medeiros <daiphoenixNO SPAMlycos.com> writes:

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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Bruno Medeiros - CS/E student
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?BrunoMedeiros#D