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From: Anders Åstrand <andast@kth.se>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Do not use C++ style comments (// comments). Strict ANSI C compilers do not accept them.
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 11:18:46 +0200
Message-ID: <b5072804-72f4-47f0-afbe-d5dba000164a@email.android.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <017eed62-8206-f2f9-a6e6-b59810b37def@2ndquadrant.com>

<div dir='auto'>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 That sentence made me believe the style guide was outdated, but then I found fairly recent posts referring to it and got confused.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 26, 2019 10:53, Peter Eisentraut &lt;peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com&gt; wrote:<br type="attribution" /><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">On 2019-09-25 00:13, Tom Lane wrote:&#13;<br>
&gt; Peter Eisentraut &lt;peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com&gt; writes:&#13;<br>
&gt;&gt; PostgreSQL 12 requires C99, so those guidelines should probably be&#13;<br>
&gt;&gt; rephrased from "because old compilers don't accept it" to "because we&#13;<br>
&gt;&gt; like it that way".&#13;<br>
&gt; &#13;<br>
&gt; Yeah, or more formally "to encourage consistent coding style".&#13;<br>
&#13;<br>
fixed&#13;<br>
&#13;<br>
-- &#13;<br>
Peter Eisentraut&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/&#13;<br;
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training &amp; Services&#13;<br>
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