Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Ian Collins Newsgroups: comp.programming,comp.unix.programmer Subject: Re: indent: convert to C-style comments Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2011 09:05:21 +1300 Lines: 23 Message-ID: <9hlj81F62fU13@mid.individual.net> References: <9hhhbcF62fU1@mid.individual.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net IK1yj9Y+ngzpEP5pn0QW1gVTGYp6eWfmQaT/D4xmbE0ey8dm16 Cancel-Lock: sha1:/cjpcbhuAJumqEYQdYCzHTAJZRw= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20101021 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.4 In-Reply-To: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.programming:991 comp.unix.programmer:1551 On 11/ 6/11 10:00 AM, Mark wrote: > "Ian Collins" 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