On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 09:03:42PM -0400, mahamud@cs.cmu.edu wrote:

> another minor point regarding syntax : 
> the use of "(* ... *)" prevents one from passing the multiplication
> "*" operator as an argument (say to List.map2) without 
> padding some space as in : ( * ) as opposed to (*).
> it's a small point, but i don't think i've come across such unintended
> interactions between comments and other constructs in other languages.

C does it to with division and pointers.

        foo = bar/*ptr;

Dave Brown
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