Re: Do not use C++ style comments (// comments). Strict ANSI C compilers do not accept them.

<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 That sentence made me believe the style guide was outdated, but then I found fairly recent posts referring to it and got confused.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>
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&gt; Yeah, or more formally "to encourage consistent coding style".&#13;<br>
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fixed&#13;<br>
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