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From: RC <rc1@clanchy.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Ada's Assembly Language Comments
Date: 1997/07/08
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>For further evidence that this happens even to experienced professional
>programmers, here is an extract from /usr/include/sys/kern/queue.h
>on the alpha-dec-osf3.2 system that I'm using.
>
>       /*
>        *      Macro:          queue_init
>        *      Function:
>        *              Initialize the given queue.
>        *      Header:
>        *              void queue_init(q)
>        *                      queue_t         q;      /* MODIFIED*/
>        */
>       #define queue_init(q)   ((q)->next = (q)->prev = q)
>
>The only reason that this code compiles at all is that it is usually
>#ifdef'd out.

True, but then it is 'C' isn't it?  Hardly the worlds definitive
standard for readable languages.

Again, if code can be nested, why not comments?



RC1