On Nov 18, 2010, at 11:53 PM, Chandler Carruth wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Howard Hinnant <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok, if that is the consensus of the community I can easily remove them. On a > previous product this was a customer-requested feature and subsequent > feedback on it was positive. > > I encourage people to view this question through actual use of the header, as > opposed to a svn diff. > > I'm actually pretty positive on them, but I wonder if using the (somewhat > more annoying to maintain) '//' prefix comments would help avoid confusion? > That would provide an ever-present reminder, even in diffs, that this is > merely a comment. On the other side, it makes formatting etc more annoying so > I understand that it may not be the right tradeoff.
I agree that it would make it easier to read/know. On the other hand, /* */ comments have a nice vectorized comment skipper and // don't (and can't reasonably). It probably isn't measurable, but this means that // comments are slower to lex than /* comments :-) -Chris
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