Re: indent: convert to C-style comments

From	Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.programming, comp.unix.programmer
Subject	Re: indent: convert to C-style comments
Date	2011-11-06 09:05 +1300
Message-ID	<9hlj81F62fU13@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 11/ 6/11 10:00 AM, Mark wrote:
> "Ian Collins"<ian-news@hotmail.com>  wrote in message
> news:9hhhbcF62fU1@mid.individual.net...
>> On 11/ 4/11 09:20 AM, Mark wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I've read through 'man indent' but have not found if it allows to enforce
>>> C-style comments. Am I missing any option using which would convert C++
>>> comments in to C-style?
>>
>> Since 1999, C++ comments are C comments!
>
> Correct,however many internal coding guidelines require to use old-style
> comments /**/, so I wanted to know if popular tool such as 'indent' has
> ability to convert.

That doesn't really make sense.  If the coding standard required 
old-style comments, how cones C++ style comments were used?

The best solution is to modernise the coding standard.

-- 
Ian Collins

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indent: convert to C-style comments "Mark" <mark_cruzNOTFORSPAM@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-03 16:20 -0400
  Re: indent: convert to C-style comments Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-04 20:08 +1300
    Re: indent: convert to C-style comments scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2011-11-04 16:46 +0000
    Re: indent: convert to C-style comments "Mark" <mark_cruzNOTFORSPAM@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-05 16:00 -0500
      Re: indent: convert to C-style comments Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-06 09:05 +1300
        Re: indent: convert to C-style comments "Mark" <mark_cruzNOTFORSPAM@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-05 16:12 -0500
      Re: indent: convert to C-style comments Thad Smith <ThadSmith@acm.org> - 2011-11-06 18:54 -0600
        Re: indent: convert to C-style comments jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2011-11-09 14:29 +0000
          Re: indent: convert to C-style comments John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2011-11-09 17:07 +0000
            Re: indent: convert to C-style comments jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2011-11-09 18:36 +0000
              Re: indent: convert to C-style comments John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2011-11-10 20:08 +0000
                Re: indent: convert to C-style comments Doug McIntyre <merlyn@geeks.org> - 2011-11-10 20:21 +0000
                Re: indent: convert to C-style comments jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2011-11-10 21:04 +0000
          Re: indent: convert to C-style comments Thad Smith <ThadSmith@acm.org> - 2011-11-10 20:47 -0700

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