Re: // for comments

2016-02-13 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Mark Atwood : > (the following is not a policy decision, yet) > > I don't think we will be supporting any compilers so old as not support > slashslash comments. > OTOH, I think they are confusing, but that's a personal preference, due to > my visceral dislike of JavaScript. > My preference is we a

Re: // for comments

2016-02-13 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Hal Murray : > > There are quite a few uses of // as comments. (Also several in URLs in > comments) > > Do we plan to use any compilers that don't support that? > > Is it OK to use them? If we find occasional uses, should they be fixed? C99 allows these, so they're within our conformance b

Re: // for comments

2016-02-13 Thread Mark Atwood
(the following is not a policy decision, yet) I don't think we will be supporting any compilers so old as not support slashslash comments. OTOH, I think they are confusing, but that's a personal preference, due to my visceral dislike of JavaScript. My preference is we avoid adding more, and should

// for comments

2016-02-13 Thread Hal Murray
There are quite a few uses of // as comments. (Also several in URLs in comments) Do we plan to use any compilers that don't support that? Is it OK to use them? If we find occasional uses, should they be fixed? -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___