[TUHS] // comment in C++

[Steve Nickolas]

On Thu, 9 Feb 2017, Dave Horsfall wrote:

> 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
>  */

This is the way I usually write my comments, too.

> 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.

Unrealircd likewise accepts those 3 different types of comments.

-uso.