C needs reliable comments

[Dan Bernstein]

In article <1991Jan18.100448.17770 at gdr.bath.ac.uk> P.Smee at bristol.ac.uk (Paul Smee) writes:
> (IMHO) you MUST invent some form of nesting comment in order to get the
> effect you want.  That has its own set of difficulties, which is why it
> is such an uncommon feature.

// solves the problem without the difficulties. If you apply // to an
already commented-out section of code, you get the same commented-out
section of code.

---Dan