Re: st: undocumented command *

[David Kantor <kantor.d@att.net>]

At 05:48 PM 9/26/2008, Gabi wrote:
> Right, * is a comment marker, but should it be used?
> [...]
This brings up a noteworthy phenomenon. The allowing of * to 
introduce a comment at the start of a line means that
*/
is a comment -- which means that you can have unbalanced /* */ pairs. 
This has happened to me on a few occasions.

/*
Here is some comment text.
*/

*/

----
The second */ was an editing error, but has no ill effect. It has no 
effect at all unless there is another /* above, to balance it as a 
(nesting) comment delimiter.

I just thought that is worth noting.
--David

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