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On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 12:17:14AM +0100, Václav Haisman wrote:
> 
> I would like to comment on FreeBSD style(9) a bit. Why does not mention
> or even encourage C99 style // comments? They are nice when one wants to
> comment out bigger chunks of code with /**/ comment.

Use #if 0 ... #endif for that.

Joerg

> On the similar note, the ability to move declarations closer to the
> point of use in code is IMO nice feature, too. The style(9) doesn't
> mention this either.

Because it is not necessarily a good thing.

Joerg