defining a comment?

[Henry Spencer]

In article <855 at vsi.UUCP> friedl at vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) writes:
>> # define	STARTCOM	//**/*
>I'll be durned, it doesn't work.  The first part does indeed
>define STARTCOM to be /*...

You can't depend on this, I'm afraid.  In fact, it is not true in ANSI C:
the /**/ comment turns into a space, not into nothing.
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