On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:59:05 -0400 (EDT), Andy Dougherty
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Please avoid //-style comments. Older compilers don't understand
> them.
Not only 'older' compilers, also 'stricter' compilers.
One of my pet-peeves. Sorry. // comments are bad style.
my $a = 1 // <This is comment :)>;
> Also, and more importantly, this section of code has several commented out
> lines, but no comments explaining why those lines are commented out. It
> makes it more difficult to understand.
>
> --- parrot-current/lib/Parrot/Pmc2c/PMETHODs.pm 2007-03-17
> 19:15:14.000000000 -0400
> +++ parrot-andy/lib/Parrot/Pmc2c/PMETHODs.pm 2007-03-21 11:56:34.730000000
> -0400
> @@ -439,7 +439,7 @@
>
> /* if (PMC_cont(ccont)->address) { */
> {
> - //parrot_context_t * const caller_ctx = PMC_cont(ccont)->to_ctx;
> + /* parrot_context_t * const caller_ctx = PMC_cont(ccont)->to_ctx; */
> if (! caller_ctx) {
> /* there is no point calling real_exception here, because
> PDB_backtrace can't deal with a missing to_ctx either. */
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