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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: Is there a way to do large block of source code comments
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 17:44:50 -0700
Date: 2014-09-02T17:44:50-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <lu5oa3$7n1$2@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8fd27434-43c2-4bd1-b72b-dd7a0ef5af75@googlegroups.com>

On 09/02/2014 05:07 PM, robin.vowels@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> The above quotation is mere hype, like the author's justification for omitting
> exponentiation in Pascal, somehow more convenient to use log and exp instead!

Funny. It's easy enough to find C++ guidelines that recommend avoiding
multi-line comments because they're error prone. When those who like to use an
error-prone language recommend against a construct because it's error prone, it
must really be bad.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"I don't know why I ever come in here. The
flies get the best of everything."
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-03  0:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-01 17:24 Is there a way to do large block of source code comments gdotone
2014-09-01 19:04 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-09-03  0:07   ` robin.vowels
2014-09-03  0:44     ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2014-09-03  1:15       ` gdotone
2014-09-03  4:17         ` J-P. Rosen
2014-09-03  8:04       ` Brian Drummond
2014-09-03  0:50     ` Adam Beneschan
2014-09-04  2:30       ` robin.vowels
2014-09-04 15:12         ` Adam Beneschan
2014-09-03  8:22     ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-09-03  8:28     ` Stefan.Lucks
2014-09-03  8:23       ` gdotone
2014-09-03  8:57         ` Pascal Obry
2014-09-03 15:12           ` Stefan.Lucks
2014-09-03 15:52             ` Pascal Obry
2014-09-03 17:48               ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-09-03 18:28                 ` Peter Chapin
2014-09-03 18:52               ` Adam Beneschan
2014-09-03 21:47                 ` gautier_niouzes
     [not found]                   ` <91e173a8-7451-4609-b141-ce3c6b19455f@googlegroups.com>
2014-09-04  5:56                     ` Pascal Obry
2014-09-03 22:42                 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-09-03 21:02               ` Stefan.Lucks
2014-10-01 21:15                 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-09-03 16:58       ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-09-04 18:19       ` Keith Thompson
2014-09-03 15:32     ` Shark8
2014-09-04  2:37       ` robin.vowels
2014-09-04  7:20         ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-09-04 12:46           ` robin.vowels
2014-09-04 15:44             ` G.B.
2014-09-12  2:52         ` Shark8
2014-09-01 19:08 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-09-01 20:34   ` G.B.
2014-09-01 20:53     ` Niklas Holsti
2014-09-02 13:14       ` G.B.
2014-09-02 14:38         ` kalvin.news
2014-09-02 23:33         ` Randy Brukardt
2014-09-03  8:17           ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-09-01 21:15   ` Simon Wright
2014-09-02 15:01   ` Adam Beneschan
2014-09-02 16:35     ` Simon Wright
2014-09-02 17:14     ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-09-02 19:02     ` Niklas Holsti
2014-09-02 20:10       ` mockturtle
2014-09-02 23:36     ` Randy Brukardt
2014-09-01 19:13 ` Anh Vo
2014-09-01 21:04 ` gdotone
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