Re: indent: convert to C-style comments

From	scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
Subject	Re: indent: convert to C-style comments
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Date	2011-11-04 16:46 +0000

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Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> writes:
>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!
>

More correctly, C++ comments were added to the 1999 C standard.   Earlier
C compilers (C89 and precedessors) likely do not support C++ comments.

A stand-alone pre-processor pass can be used with such compilers if necessary.

scott

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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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