From: Olivier Galibert Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 11:41:18 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid C++ comments, use C comments instead Message-ID: <20060710114117.GA62514@dspnet.fr.eu.org> In-Reply-To: On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 01:06:44PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Olivier Galibert wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 12:46:28AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > It is sad that some people stay behind and we need to > > > cater to them, though. > > > > Do you, really? > > Well, I guess as long as things do not break for _you_, we do not need to. Supporting old, not-standard-anymore compilers has a cost in maintainability, by precluding the use of better constructs (// comments, declarations near initialisation, struct initializers...). Additionally, it gets harder and harder to have people test for them. Given than you can find gcc on pretty much everything that has a filesystem cache decent enough to handle git correctly, is this cost worth it? _That_ was the question. OG.