Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [off-list ref] writes:
On Fri, Jul 14 2017, Junio C. Hamano jotted:
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Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:
- This may be showing I am not just old fashioned but also am
ignorant, but I do not see much point in using the following in
our codebase (iow, I am not aware of places in the existing code
that they can be improved by employing these features):
. // comments
[Feel free to ignore this E-Mail and my fascination with C syntax
trivia]
I wouldn't advocate switching to them on this basis, but since you asked
for cases where things could be improved with // comments:
The other day I submitted a patch that included this line in a comment:
+ * "t/**.sh" and then conclude that there's a directory "t",
Yes, obviously I am very aware of this one.
The thing is, I had to do this only once in the 10+ year since
project inception. I find that much more relevant anecdata ;-).