9 Feb
2017
9 Feb
'17
2:47 a.m.
On Thu, 9 Feb 2017, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Wed, 8 Feb 2017, Steve Johnson wrote:
This is the way I usually write my comments, too.
I remember some discussion about this. In
reality, a C comment really
requires you to type 8 characters, because putting anything adjacent to
the /* or */ looks terrible. Many languages used single characters
(e.g., # for make). The argument was "if you make comments easier to
type, you'll get more of them in the code" (viz. the Unix kernel). I'm
guessing Bjarne was aware of these discussions, although I don't
remember specifically that he was...
My favourite C /* */ style is this:
/*
* foo
* bar
*/ Is that what you meant? And recent C also accepts //
as a comment, which
I use like this:
/*
* This is where we do some neat stuff.
*/
foo();
weird_function(); // Yes, we need to call this here...
bar();
I'm quite taken by BIND, though, which accepts
/* this */
// this
# and this.
Unrealircd likewise accepts those 3 different types of comments.
-uso.