Re: indent: convert to C-style comments

From	"Mark" <mark_cruzNOTFORSPAM@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.programming, comp.unix.programmer
Subject	Re: indent: convert to C-style comments
Date	2011-11-05 16:12 -0500
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"Ian Collins" <ian-news@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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>>> 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?

As it often happens, not everyone wants to follow the coding standards and 
leave sources unformatted.

> The best solution is to modernise the coding standard.
>
Unfortunately this is not an option.

Mark

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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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