Re: [linuxdc-dev]"C++ style comments"

[M. R. B. <mr...@0x...>]

* Adrian McMenamin <ad...@mc...> on Wed, Feb 13, 2002:

> Just to make a point - please have a look at
>=20
> /drivers/input/keybdev.c is the main kernel sources and you will see that=
 the=20
> dreaded "C++ style comments" have indeed been accepted into the kernel. S=
o=20
> there :->
>=20

Indeed, although the *two* places where they are used (as opposed to the
entire file) are used for printing debugging messages, so they were
probably left in the original patch/sync unchanged to facilitate that.

Still, our development policy is not to use them.  Something I learned in
art class about "Form over function..." :P.  Who was that?  Buckminster
Fuller?

M. R.