karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) (10/11/90)
In article <1990Oct10.211829.3168@eng.umd.edu> rfink@eng.umd.edu (Russell A. Fink) writes: >By rules of Kernighan and Ritchie, or standard adaptations of the >language, can I nest comments within variable names? > printf ("Value is %d", num/* this is obnoxious */ber); It's illegal (because comments are whitespace) in ANSI C. In Classic C it's illegal according to the book, but legal by common practice, so the practical answer is that it's implementation-dependent. Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl@ima.isc.com or harvard!ima!karl), The Walking Lint