Re: [Freeglut-developer] Linux game-mode patches

[Bill K. <bi...@ct...>]

Diederick C. Niehorster wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 05:58, John Tsiombikas <nu...@me...> wrote:
> 
>> But *please* stop using
>> C++ comments in C source code :)
> 
> Ah sorry, I'll try to get a grip on that. I just read up on it: so //
> is not allowed, always use /* xxx */... :P
> Will try to remember that! VS allows it, so it might slip through sometimes...

Single line // comments were added to the C language
in the C99 standard.

So, over a decade ago - but full compiler support for
C99 is still rare.

(As the saying goes, the great thing about standards is
there are so many to choose from.)


Regards,

Bill