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You cannot place a comment inside another comment. If you try, you find that the inner comment's first double-quotation mark terminates the outer comment, and your Smalltalk compiler misconstrues your intentions, and sees the inner comment uncovered:
" <-----------------------------------*
| First quotation mark of outer
First part of outer comment ... | comment matches first
| quotation mark of inner
" -------------------------------------* comment
Inner comment ... <---------------------- Inner comment is exposed
" -------------------------------------*
| Second quotation mark of
Second part of outer comment ... | inner comment matches second
| quotation mark of outer
" <-----------------------------------* comment