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<section><title>Comments</title>
<para>You should use /* */ for comments and not // as some compilers
do not handle the latter form.</para>
+ <para>There should not be any named credits in the source code - contributors
+ should be added
+ into the AUTHORS file instead. The only exception to this is if a routine
+ has been copied from another source.</para>
</section>
<section><title>CVS comments</title>