From -21045358562175237 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,7d7ff221635a5a63 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: f78e5,7d7ff221635a5a63 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-08-27 11:50:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.alt.net!comp-std-cpp-robomod!not-for-mail From: "Raghu B.Uppalli" Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Nested comments Followup-To: comp.lang.c++ Date: 27 Aug 2002 18:50:01 GMT Organization: MCNC / NC-REN Lines: 39 Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Return-Path: X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) Delivered-To: std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu User-Agent: KNode/0.7.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.c++:167247 comp.std.c++:13410 Sachin Garg wrote: > Hi, > > Are nested /**/ comments allowed in standard C++ > > /* > .... > /* > ..... > ..... > */ > ..... > */ No. But if you need to do nested commenting,a common trick is to use teh preprocessor directives. Eg: #if 0 /* ,,,,,,,,,,,, dksaldka /* jjdasldas */ lasldsa */ #endif Everything in here is a comment. It is a little obscure, but helps if you are testing stuff and dont want to mess up with your existing comments. --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.jamesd.demon.co.uk/csc/faq.html ]