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From: jojaste AT calum DOT csclub DOT uwaterloo DOT ca (James Ojaste)
Subject: Re: if problem
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Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 14:21:25 GMT
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In article <DAyyCx DOT HxK AT jade DOT mv DOT net>,
Mitran/Marcel/Mr  <nverever AT wendy DOT ee DOT mcgill DOT ca> wrote:
>Okay, I wrote a program which takes command line parameters. The program
>parses them in the following way:
>	switch (*Param){
>		...		/*A few cases here, too long to mention */
>		case 'p':
>			Param++;
>			if (*Param == 'a')	/*The first parameter(-pa)*/
>				{...}
>			if (*Param == 'b')	/*The second parameter(-pb)*/
>				{...}
>However, if I remove the comment:
>/*The first parameter */, the -pb if doesn't work anymore.

Looks like you have unmatched comment delimiters.  For example:
/* This comment begin token is unmatched on this line
	code_that ("Won't run");	/* <- this is ignored, we're
					still in a comment */
	code_that ("Will run");		/* because the compiler sees
					the * / above... */

>	I don't think it's normal that where I comment my code should
>affect the compiler output. I guess it's true, well commented code

Oh yeah?  Try commenting out your entire program - your comments *will*
affect the compiler's output...  :-)

>does lead to better programs! Seriously, is this a bug or a programming
>error on my part? Am I the only one who has this problem?

Your error, and no - unmatched parens, braces and comments are just
something that you have to be careful about - the compiler will complain
you about the parens and braces, but it has no idea what you meant
to comment out.

James

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