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From: john slee <indigoid@higherplane.net>
To: Jonathan Earle <jearle@nortelnetworks.com>
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Subject: Re: Coding Style
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In-Reply-To: <28560036253BD41191A10000F8BCBD116BDCCB@zcard00g.ca.nortel.com>; from jearle@nortelnetworks.com on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 10:07:10AM -0500
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On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 10:07:10AM -0500, Jonathan Earle wrote:
> > /*
> >  * I tend to find standard C comments easier to read.  They stand out,
> >  * especially for multiple lines (although I always try to put the :end:
> >  * on a separate line for clarity).
> >  */
> 
> I like this style for multiple line comments, but prefer the '//' for single
> liners.  Two less characters to type after all.  :)

and potentially no end of weird problems if you have mac users editing
your code...  suddenly a compiler may ignore the rest of a file starting
at a given // or # comment, and you'll find its caused by their
different linebreaks.  had this problem with php.  havent seen it with C
yet.  does gcc handle non-correct^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hunix linebreaks now?  it
didnt when i used djgpp all those years ago.

// are nicer on the eyes, for short comments.  and death to capital
// letters.  and oooh, vim auto-extends // comments, thats handy isn't
// it! :-]

j.
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