On 24/10/16 21:11, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Tom Lane (t...@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote: >> Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: >>> Fabien COELHO wrote: >>>> I find it annoying that "//" comments are not supported, or having to >>>> declare variables at the beginning of a block instead of when first used... >> >>> I think some c99 features would be nice (variadic macros for one), but >>> those particular two get a big "meh" from me. >> >> Yeah. Personally, I'd want to continue the rule against // comments just >> as a matter of maintaining stylistic consistency. Code that's got a >> random mishmash of // and /* comments looks messy, if you ask me. > > +1 >
+1 >> An alternative that would be worth considering is to adopt a uniform >> rule of // for line-ending comments and /* for all other uses. We'd >> have to teach pgindent about that, and I dunno how hard that is. > > I'm not sure it's worth the resulting mess. > I think the current commenting style stylistically nicer. -- Petr Jelinek http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
