comment token mistake

[Norman Diamond]

In article <2423 at solo5.cs.vu.nl> maart at cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:

>>	printf("%d\n", *a/*b);
>>Why didn't dmr take an otherwise illegal token, e.g. `@'?

In article <10179 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:

>Maybe he thought that people who don't use white space deserve to
>be punished.

That can't be the reason.  If it were the reason, then

    a =- b;

would not have been fixed.  (Just like the ambiguous a+++b has not
been fixed, and the unambiguous a+++++b has not been fixed.)

Norman Diamond, Sony Computer Science Lab (diamond%csl.sony.jp at relay.cs.net)
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