Personally I have no opinion, but agree it would be nice to standardize.

- Patrick

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Sean Owen <so...@cloudera.com> wrote:
> One thing Marcelo pointed out to me is that the // style does not
> interfere with commenting out blocks of code with /* */, which is a
> small good thing. I am also accustomed to // style for multiline, and
> reserve /** */ for javadoc / scaladoc. Meaning, seeing the /* */ style
> inline always looks a little funny to me.
>
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Kay Ousterhout <kayousterh...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The Spark Style Guide
>> <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SPARK/Spark+Code+Style+Guide>
>> says multi-line comments should formatted as:
>>
>> /*
>>  * This is a
>>  * very
>>  * long comment.
>>  */
>>
>> But in my experience, we almost always use "//" for multi-line comments:
>>
>> // This is a
>> // very
>> // long comment.
>>
>> Here are some examples:
>>
>>    - Recent commit by Reynold, king of style:
>>    
>> https://github.com/apache/spark/commit/bebf4c42bef3e75d31ffce9bfdb331c16f34ddb1#diff-d616b5496d1a9f648864f4ab0db5a026R58
>>    - RDD.scala:
>>    
>> https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/RDD.scala#L361
>>    - DAGScheduler.scala:
>>    
>> https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/scheduler/DAGScheduler.scala#L281
>>
>>
>> Any objections to me updating the style guide to reflect this?  As with
>> other style issues, I think consistency here is helpful (and formatting
>> multi-line comments as "//" does nicely visually distinguish code comments
>> from doc comments).
>>
>> -Kay
>
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