> On 29 Mar 2023, at 19:18, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 09:36:00AM +0100, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>>> On 23 Feb 2023, at 05:48, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> Mass conversion of /* to // style would answer that,
>>> but would also create an impossible back-patching problem.
>>
>> Yeah, that sounds incredibly invasive.
>
> I am replying late here but ...
>
> We would have to convert all supported branches, and tell all forks to
> do the same (hopefully at the same time). The new standard would then
> be for all single-line comments to use // instead of /* ... */.
That still leaves every patch which is in flight on -hackers, and conflicts in
local development trees etc. It's doable (apart from forks, but that cannot be
our core concern), but I personally can't see the price paid justify the result.
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Daniel Gustafsson