comments on comments
"wrong" so cold.
Correct is open to a lot of interpertation. I programmed professionally for a long time and none of us could agree on much ( this was not in C, where I am a beginner )
Since it is a wiki, why not write a bit about your version of the truth?
To answer your question block comments should be implemented by the IDE, highlight the area to comment and press something <buttion, icon, magic key>, each line is commented by a // at the beginning of the line. See netbeans for one of the many ide's that does this.
You will notice that all my block comments are of this form. I have asked the BoostC team to add it to their IDE.
If it were up to me I would eliminate the /* */ style of commenting. But I would leave it for those who like it.
I put a comment on the end of the line if it comments only that line, I use a block comment for comments that are too long or apply to a block of code. I think it make sense, but opinions differ.
We agree about boostc which is a much bigger issue.