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From: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid C++ comments, use C comments instead
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:41:18 +0200
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On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 01:06:44PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 12:46:28AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > > It is sad that some people stay behind and we need to
> > > cater to them, though.
> > 
> > Do you, really?
> 
> Well, I guess as long as things do not break for _you_, we do not need to.

Supporting old, not-standard-anymore compilers has a cost in
maintainability, by precluding the use of better constructs (//
comments, declarations near initialisation, struct initializers...).
Additionally, it gets harder and harder to have people test for them.
Given than you can find gcc on pretty much everything that has a
filesystem cache decent enough to handle git correctly, is this cost
worth it?  _That_ was the question.

  OG.