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huonw opened this issue Jun 9, 2014 · 0 comments
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Manual still says nested block comments are illegal #14767

huonw opened this issue Jun 9, 2014 · 0 comments
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huonw commented Jun 9, 2014

http://doc.rust-lang.org/master/rust.html#comments

Comments in Rust code follow the general C++ style of line and block-comment forms, with no nesting of block-comment delimiters.

This is no longer true. (The grammar in that section was updated for nesting, but the text was apparently missed.)
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auto merge of #14800 : reem/rust/patch-1, r=alexcrichton
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According to #14767 and the grammar right above this documentation, nested comments are supported.
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