defining a comment?

[Chris Torek]

In article <5438 at techunix.BITNET> benny at techunix.BITNET (Benny Pinkas) writes:
>Can I use the Preprocessor to define a comment?

>#define COM /*this is a comment*/

This is legal; it is merely useless.

>or even

>#define STARTCOM /*

This is rather dubious.

>Usually the text after the /* is considered as a comment and is not part
>of the macro definition.

Why should you care?  You cannot (portably) view the text (if any) emitted
by the preprocessor, which may well be an integral part of the compiler.
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