> On 29 Mar 2023, at 19:18, Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 09:36:00AM +0100, Daniel Gustafsson wrote: >>> On 23 Feb 2023, at 05:48, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Mass conversion of /* to // style would answer that, >>> but would also create an impossible back-patching problem. >> >> Yeah, that sounds incredibly invasive. > > I am replying late here but ... > > We would have to convert all supported branches, and tell all forks to > do the same (hopefully at the same time). The new standard would then > be for all single-line comments to use // instead of /* ... */. That still leaves every patch which is in flight on -hackers, and conflicts in local development trees etc. It's doable (apart from forks, but that cannot be our core concern), but I personally can't see the price paid justify the result. -- Daniel Gustafsson
