Q-> can you nest comments in var names?

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1990Oct10.211829.3168 at eng.umd.edu> rfink at eng.umd.edu (Russell A. Fink) writes:
>... can I nest comments within variable names?
>printf ("Value is %d", num/* this is obnoxious */ber);

That's not right -- a comment is replaced with in effect a single space.