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From: kwsodema@avistainc.com (Kenneth W. Sodemann)
Subject: Re: Ada's Assembly Language Comments
Date: 1997/07/08
Date: 1997-07-08T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <33c27bfe.7311828@news.mhtc.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5pi9tj$pvj$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au


On 4 Jul 1997 17:49:07 +1000, ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A.
O'Keefe) wrote:

>kwsodema@avistainc.com (Kenneth W. Sodemann) writes:
>>Why did the folks who defined Ada only define the one style of
>>commenting?  I cannot say, but I can speculate based on why, at the
>>company I work for, our C and C++ coding standards all but outlaw the
>>old /* .. */ comment style.
>
>Your C coding standard had better _not_ outlaw the old /* ... */ comment
>style, because that is the ONLY comment style in C.

Right, I should have said our "C++ coding standard".  My mistake.
Sorry about any confusion.  (It has been so long since we have
actually done anything here in straight C, thank God!! :) )

>(C9X may adopt the
>// comments from C++, but the public comment draft of C9X is not yet
>with us, let alone C9X compilers.)

That would be a nice improvement to the language.

--
Kenneth W. Sodemann
kwsodema@avistainc.com
http://www.avistainc.com
Speaking for myself, _not_ AVISTA Inc.




  reply	other threads:[~1997-07-08  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-07-03  0:00 Ada's Assembly Language Comments RC
1997-07-03  0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1997-07-03  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-03  0:00   ` RC
1997-07-08  0:00     ` Peter Hermann
1997-07-03  0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1997-07-04  0:00   ` Fergus Henderson
1997-07-07  0:00     ` Tucker Taft
1997-07-08  0:00     ` RC
1997-07-08  0:00   ` RC
1997-07-11  0:00     ` Joerg Rodemann
1997-07-11  0:00     ` Samuel Mize
1997-07-11  0:00     ` Stuart Palin
1997-07-03  0:00 ` Kenneth W. Sodemann
1997-07-04  0:00   ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-07-08  0:00     ` Kenneth W. Sodemann [this message]
1997-07-08  0:00   ` RC
1997-07-11  0:00     ` Robert Munck
1997-07-11  0:00     ` Dan Johnston D.B.
1997-07-13  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
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