From: "Guy N. Hurst" <gnhurst@...>
Date: 2001-07-06T11:00:54+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17365] Re: /* */ comments


Bill Kelly wrote:
> ...
> Hmm, suppose this might happen much ?
> 
> /* begins comment
>   regex = /pattern*/
>  still in comment? */
> 

I ran across a real incidence here:
http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-gnu-emacs/1994-October/003613.html

I'm not sure there is an easy way around this.
Looks like the age-old problem of distinguishing
between data and code.


Guy N. Hurst

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