minor Block-Comment Bug/Problem

[Mike Cowlishaw-2]

This behaviour is correct -- quotes are ignored inside comments; consider, for
example:

    a=b/0    /* Isn't this silly? */

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Mike Cowlishaw, IBM Fellow, IBM UK Laboratories
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[Patrick McPhee-3]

Kai Schmidt wrote

> I am able to put a line comment in front, but I am not able to put a
> block comment arround. The program refuses to compile.
>
> content= "image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, */*\r\n"
>
vs
> /*
> content= "image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, */*\r\n"
> */
>
Please note that what you've written here is (after stripping out the
comment)
 *\r\n"
 */

which is not valid.

Once you're inside a comment, the stuff you write is commentary, so
things like strings don't make any difference -- when you hit the
end-of-comment token, the comment is over.

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Patrick TJ McPhee
DataMirror Corporation
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