defining a comment?

[Mike Hoegeman]

In article <3999 at bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi at bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
 >In article <13604 at mimsy.UUCP> chris at mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
 >>	COMMENT
 >>	text to be commented out
 >>	TNEMMOC
 >>	code
 >>which of course does not work.
 >Well...this may be just nitpicking, but:
 >     #define     COMMENT     "/*"
 >     #define     TNEMMOC     "*/"
 >     COMMENT
 >     text to be commented out
 >     TNEMMOC     /* sdrawkcab "tnemmoc" tsuj si siht */
 >     c code
 >Then use the preprocessor *twice* and you get
 >     c code
 >Which is now ready for compilation.

Maybe I'm missing something here but what the h*ll is wrong with
plain old

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Sheesh!!

-mike