Is this correct a=/* comment */b;

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1991Feb7.032512.20133 at athena.mit.edu> scs at adam.mit.edu writes:
>Anyone who sticks a comment like that in anything even remotely
>resembling production code should probably be dragged out behind
>the barn on an icy, moonless night and put out of his misery with
>a 12-gauge like the pathetic dying mongrel he is.

My guess is that it was part of a C validation suite, for which it
would be a most appropriate piece of code.