rfink@eng.umd.edu (Russell A. Fink) (10/11/90)
From: rfink@eng.umd.edu (Russell A. Fink) Newsgroups: comp.std.c,comp.programmer.c Subject: Q-> can you nest comments in var names? References: Sender: Followup-To: Distribution: world Organization: Civil Engineering Department Keywords: C, c, identifiers, nested, comments, Kernighan, Ritchie By rules of Kernighan and Ritchie, or standard adaptations of the language, can I nest comments within variable names? int number; . . . printf ("Value is %d", num/* this is obnoxious */ber); Is that obnoxious comment permitted, or is it syntactically wrong? Thanks in advance for response. -- //===== //===== Russ Fink =============== // //____ rfink@eng.umd.edu // // University of Maryland //===== //===== College Park ============