On 2010-02-08 14:20-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2010-01-22 08:39+0100 Arjen Markus wrote: > >> Hi Alan, >> >> I have so far been using the /* ... */ for most, if not all, my C code. >> The reason being that it was C, not C++. As all compilers that are >> relevant to me are indeed accepting this by default, I have no objection >> whatsoever to adopting //. In fact, it makes it much clearer what is and >> what is not comment. > > It's been some time now with no further comments on this thread so I would > like to follow up on this topic with a decision. The consensus (with no > dissenting opinions) seems to be that // comments would be fine for C code. > So I intend to use // style comments from now on in C code, and I encourage > their use with other developers. Of course, converting our existing > comment-style to the // form would be a pain if done by hand. Therefore, in > the interests of uniform style I am going to inquire with the uncrustify > developers whether they would be willing to implement a style option for > both C and C++ code that converts all single and multiple line /*... */ > comments to the // form.
Hmmm. No response so far on the uncrustify list. So we may have to do the conversion to // form using a special script. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
