[Freeipa-devel] C coding style guide update

Jakub Hrozek jhrozek at redhat.com
Mon Jul 27 15:24:46 UTC 2015


On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 03:54:22PM +0200, Michal Židek wrote:
> >     - Line-comments (//, aka C++ comments) should be still avoided,
> >       though
> 
> I really do not know what people have against line comments, but
> this is not the first time I see someone resisting them, so I
> guess there is some hidden evil in this way of commenting the code.
> But I am OK if they stay forbidden.

This is only personal preference, no technical reason :-)

I mostly don't like how they look -- for some reason they are much
easier for me to skip visually, even with syntax highlighting.




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