On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Paul D. Anderson <paul.d.removethis.ander...@comcast.andthis.net> wrote: > Nick Sabalausky Wrote: > >> "BCS" <a...@pathlink.com> wrote in message >> news:78ccfa2d3e7918cb909fe7a39...@news.digitalmars.com... >> > Reply to Denis, >> > >> >>> I'd be fine depricating /**/. >> >>> >> >> You mean, deprecating /++/? >> >> >> > >> > No, I mean exactly what I said. >> > /**/ has well defined semantics, changing it will cause problems that >> > replacing it will not. >> > >> >> Are there any problems you see with it other than porting code to D? (FWIW, >> I've never come across any code that had a /* in between a /* and */.) >> >> > > I've seen lots of code that did that. > > Now, if you mean code that intentionally did that...
I could see (and maybe have seen?) people using it in comments: /******/ /* big /* long /* comment /* box /*******/ --bb