Re: [Plplot-devel] plcont documentation update

[Hazen B. <hba...@ma...>]

On Apr 15, 2008, at 5:25 PM, Andrew Ross wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 01:43:05PM -0400, Hezekiah M. Carty wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 4:52 AM, Andrew Ross
>> <and...@us...> wrote:
>>>
>>>  Hi Hez,
>>>  I've commited these changes with just a couple of modifications.  
>>> Note
>>>  that in C source files we use C style comments like /* */ and not
>>>  C++ comments like //. Some examples of the latter have crept  
>>> into the
>>>  source, but it is best avoided if possible. There was a time  
>>> when not
>>>  all C compilers supported C++ comments, but I suspect those days  
>>> are
>>>  gone.
>>>
>>>  Andrew
>>
>> Andrew,
>>
>> Thanks for the response and for applying the fix.  My apologies on  
>> the
>> commenting issue - I will stick to C style comments in the future.
>>
>> Along those lines - should I update the patch I submitted for
>> plimagefr coordinate transforms accordingly?  I used C++ // comments
>> for most of my comments in that code.
>>
>> Thank you again for taking the time to review and check this in.
>>
>> Hez
>
> No problem. Don't worry about the comments. I've been through and  
> fixed
> the comments in the main src directory. There were a couple of other
> instances as well, which no-one has complained about. This probably
> backs up my statement that modern compilers don't care.

My apologies as well. I'll clean up the comments in the cairo, svg  
and aqt driver code.

-Hazen