Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Dec 2006 18:01:04 +0100 | From | Olivier Galibert <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/5] PCI MMConfig: Share what's shareable. |
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On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 06:03:17PM +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 04:53:36PM +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote: > > > # git grep '//' -- '*.c' |fgrep -v 'http://' |wc -l > > 14333 > > > > You lost that war ages ago. Come join us in this millenia, > > line-comments exist officially in C since 1999, and were supported > > way before that. > > If I was bored, I might've counted how many /* */ style comments we > had in the source,
426K or so.
> then used it to construct an elaborate argument why C++-style > comments are evil and Conformance is Goodness, but I'm not, so I > won't.
I've yet to see an actual technical argument against them. I find them more readable by making it perfectly obvious what their application range is, contrary to /* where you need to find the closing */. But that's just me.
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