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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: This one looks very very suspecious to me.... 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 10 May 95 16:44:30 +1000."
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Date: Tue, 09 May 95 23:59:42 -0700
From: Bakul Shah <bakul@netcom.com>
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> It has to look inside the #ifdef block because it isn't excluded.
> Comments affect #ifdef blocks:

Note that John Reiser's cpp (the one `true' cpp) didn't do
this and the other things you note.  That is one of the
reasons the Rand editor authors used and got away with
#ifdef COMMENT .. #endif to document function interfaces.
(Today they would've used noweb or some such lierate
programming tool).  Any way, this battle was fought and
lost during the ANSIfication of C.  So it goes.