Adam D. Ruppe Wrote: > 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
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