No C99/C++ comments.

diff --git a/doc/coding b/doc/coding
index 047655464af5125cfd6689204155232ba694c0d6..3f410f07a0961873b74122b7e4807aa7cd2d73ff 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/coding
+++ b/doc/coding
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ You are encouraged to format multi-line comments like this:
 
         /*
         * Please use complete sentences, with proper grammer,
-        * capitalization and puntuation.  Use two spaces between
+        * capitalization and punctuation.  Use two spaces between
         * sentences.
         */
 
@@ -179,6 +179,13 @@ But please avoid elaborate boxes like this:
         * ugly, too.                                              *
         ***********************************************************/
 
+Do not use
+
+       // C++/C99 comments
+
+because they are not portable C89.
+
+
 Conditional compilation
 
 Unless the conditional code is very short, please comment it like