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From: lrk@pobox.com (Lance Kibblewhite)
Subject: Re: Comments?
Date: 1999/01/18
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robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com wrote:

>In article <m3r9sugz5g.fsf@mheaney.ni.net>,
>  Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org> wrote:
>> If you're using Pascal or C, then be sure to use an
>> editor that supports color-coding.  You have to make it
>> obvious which part of your code is comment, and which is
>> not.
>
>UCSD Pascal generated a warning when you commented out
>a semicolon, quite useful :-)

How did one sift through the false negatives, looking for the true
negatives?  Or did this simply cause semicolons to be not used within
comments?