Re: Do not use C++ style comments (// comments). Strict ANSI C compilers do not accept them.

Anders Åstrand <[email protected]> Mon, 30 Sep 2019 11:18:46 +0200

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Thanks for your attention! That sentence made me believe the style guide was outdated, but then I found fairly recent posts referring to it and got confused.

On Sep 26, 2019 10:53, Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]> wrote:

On 2019-09-25 00:13, Tom Lane wrote:&#13;

> Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]> writes:&#13;

>> PostgreSQL 12 requires C99, so those guidelines should probably be&#13;

>> rephrased from "because old compilers don't accept it" to "because we&#13;

>> like it that way".&#13;

> &#13;

> Yeah, or more formally "to encourage consistent coding style".&#13;

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fixed&#13;

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