block-comments

Including */ in a C-style block comment

Is there any way to include */ in a C-style block comment? Changing the block comment to a series of line comments (//) is not an option in this case. Here's an example of the sort of comment causing a problem: /** * perl -pe 's/(?<=.{6}).*//g' : Limit to PID */ ...

Lack of block comments in VB .NET?

Just a question of interest: Does anyone know why there's no block comment capability in VB .NET? (Unless there really is - but I've never yet come across it.) ...