Re: [PATCH] Avoid C++ comments, use C comments instead

[Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>]

Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> writes:

> From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
>
> This doesn't make the code uglier or harder to read, yet it makes the
> code more portable.  This also simplifies checking for other potential
> incompatibilities.  "gcc -std=c89 -pedantic" can flag many incompatible
> constructs as warnings, but C++ comments will cause it to emit an error.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>

The title should probably read "avoid C99 comments", but coming
from the previous century, I tend to agree with this.

The struct/array initializer stuff by Shawn makes them harder to
read (for structs, it moves initialization to actual code) and
more error prone (for arrays, now the initializers need to be
carefully kept ordered), but we do not have too many of them in
the code, so I do not think it is a not much of a practical
problem.  It is sad that some people stay behind and we need to
cater to them, though.