On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 04:35:41PM -0300, Ary Borenszweig wrote: > No. When porting C, C++, Java or C# code just search "//" and replace it > with "--".
Problem with this is old habit. I find myself annoyed with languages that don't accept // comments just because I'm so used to typing them that it is my first instinct to comment a line. Doing a find and replace of // with something else is fairly simple (it isn't trivial, since "//" != "--" even if // == --, but that's not too hard to work with), but retraining fingers to type something new is a pain to do. > Oh wait... I think "--" is used elsewhere. Secondly, as to why I asked if it was a joke: how can someone use D or C++ and not know that // already has a meaning? I find it very hard to believe that someone can have any real world experience in the language at all and not know that // is in use. If you don't have any real world experience in the language, or at least in its direct predecessor (C++), what business do you have proposing breaking changes to it? -- Adam D. Ruppe http://arsdnet.net
