[petsc-dev] Request for comments: allow C99 internally

[Jed Brown]

Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> writes:

>> +1 for the for-loop declarations.
>> 
>> No more need to police the use of // C++-style comments?
>
> I think the objection was more about the code style. Mixing both types of comments does not look good.

I don't have a problem with // for one-line comments and /* */ for
multi-line.  This would also be easy to batch replace across the whole
(private) code base -- strictly /* */ in public headers.

I'm also fine with keeping /* */ everywhere.