Formatting of single line comments

[Till Westmann <ti...@apache.org>]

Hi,

recently I saw a few commits/reviews that changed the single line 
comments ("//") in the source file.
Some commits introduced a space between the slashes and the text and 
others removed the space between the slashes and the text. I think that 
we should agree to a single way of dealing with this to avoid overly 
busy patches.

The options I see are
a) Don’t reformat comments unless there’s a good reason to do so.
b) Always put a space.
c) Never put a space.

I’d vote for a).

Thoughts?

Cheers,
Till

Re: Formatting of single line comments

[abdullah alamoudi <ba...@gmail.com>]

I'd vote for b.

The reason is that I'd like to use the comment formatter in Eclipse which
can do things like ensure no white spaces at the end of lines and set a
maximum line width.

The problem is that I couldn't figure a way to use it without the
additional space after the slashes. If you know a way, please, let me know.

Cheers,
Abdullah.

On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 7:43 PM, Till Westmann <ti...@apache.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> recently I saw a few commits/reviews that changed the single line comments
> ("//") in the source file.
> Some commits introduced a space between the slashes and the text and
> others removed the space between the slashes and the text. I think that we
> should agree to a single way of dealing with this to avoid overly busy
> patches.
>
> The options I see are
> a) Don’t reformat comments unless there’s a good reason to do so.
> b) Always put a space.
> c) Never put a space.
>
> I’d vote for a).
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Cheers,
> Till
>