Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Janis Papanagnou Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Which code style do you prefer the most? Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 13:39:12 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <87frk10w51.fsf@onesoftnet.eu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 13:39:14 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f15dbda4db70a6f9b37f9a6418442d56"; logging-data="2704154"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18I67a8n6YgoZJija8apjWL" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:yV/+QfyYcacnCx3cI0CFJbfbQBQ= X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 In-Reply-To: <87frk10w51.fsf@onesoftnet.eu.org> Bytes: 2288 On 26.02.2025 12:43, Ar Rakin wrote: > > I actually prefer /* */ comments over // comments. There is no specific > reason for this, I just tend to like it that way. Heh! - And I prefer and use (for reasons of simplicity) the '//' form. (Only if I want to comment out or in a larger piece of code I use the other form.) - The good thing is that you can nest the two forms; e.g. use of '//' for regular comments and use the other form for temporary code activation/deactivation. - In practice I use // without thinking whether it's supported by the "C" version I use, but it never was a problem. BTW, I also use '//' for rather static long block comments, but I have to admit that my editor (Vim) supports reformatting with a few keystrokes; so others may prefer /* */ comments for that. > And yeah, I use Emacs, you *might* say it is ancient but I love Emacs. There's no need to vindicate that. - There's reasons why folks stay with ("ancient") Emacs and Vi/Vim! Janis