Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ingr!crooks From: crooks@crooks.crooks.ingr.UUCP (Steve Crooks) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Program Errors and developement environment Message-ID: Date: 10 Mar 89 09:53:08 GMT References: <4352@enea.se> <2950@hound.UUCP> <3998@ttidca.TTI.COM> <756@twwells.uucp> Sender: usenet@ingr.com Followup-To: comp.lang.misc Organization: Intergraph Corp., Huntsville, AL Lines: 52 In-reply-to: bill@twwells.uucp's message of 8 Mar 89 23:11:55 GMT In article <756@twwells.uucp> bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells) writes: In article <3998@ttidca.TTI.COM> hollombe@ttidcb.tti.com (The Polymath) writes: : This is the reason I delimit all comments line by line and have fought : to get that practice included in several coding standards. : : C example: : : /* This comment is */ : /* delimited line */ : /* by line. */ : : /* : This is the way : too many other : people do it. : */ : : The above example is a trivial oversimplification that doesn't show how : the second form can cause problems. I've seen several pages of comments, : including some that looked remarkably like source code, delimited with a : single set of /* */. /* * What do you think * about commenting * things using this * style? */ -- --Steve Crooks ...uunet!ingr!b11!crooks!crooks (UUCP) b11!crooks!crooks@ingr.com (Internet) . . . . . . . . . . . . -- --Steve Crooks ...uunet!ingr!b11!crooks!crooks (UUCP) b11!crooks!crooks@ingr.com (Internet)