On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:00:30 GMT, Jamie Lokier said: > Couldn't we just skip the "wasted" comment lines and go to //-style > comments, since it's been standard GCC for what, 13 years now? And > standard ANSI C for some 9 years... The problem is that // style comments tend to encourage *really* short comments, because we're already hitting col 80: current->whizbang = some_random_func(dev->wombats, 0); //vryshrtcmmnt Making people use block comments encourages this: /* * Since we're committed to at least 3 lines anyhow, take an * extra line or two and explain why we're checking dev->wombats, * rather than the more obvious proto->giraffe field.... */ current->whizbang = some_random_func(dev->wombats, 0); (And before you ask, trying to ban // comments on the right-hand of code, and using // for block comments rather than /*... */ is the worst of both worlds.
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