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> I have no idea who came up with that brilliant idea of parsing comments in
> the code. It's so simple to make this parser completely fail that it's not

Stephen Johnson (author of the V7 portable C compiler), which is where
it's from (the lint tool). He also wrote yacc so he does know a bit about
parsers 8).

> even funny anymore.

The notation in question has been standard in tools like lint since the
end of the 1970s

Alan