[TUHS] // comment in C++

[Steve Johnson]

Well, personally I use // for almost all comments in C/C++.  I
reserve /* */ for commenting out blocks of code.   Since, for some
reason, /* */ doesn't nest, if I stick to this style life is good.

Steve

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Nickolas" <usotsuki at buric.co>
To:"The Eunuchs Hysterical Society" <tuhs at tuhs.org>
Cc:
Sent:Wed, 8 Feb 2017 21:47:49 -0500 (EST)
Subject:Re: [TUHS] // comment in C++

 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.

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