[TUHS] // comment in C++

[Dave Horsfall]

On Wed, 8 Feb 2017, Steve Johnson wrote:

> 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.

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