On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Ramon van Handel wrote:
> "Timothy J. Massey" wrote:
> > Same here. Trying to comment out a section of well-documented code in an
> > environment that doesn't support nested comments gets really, really old...
>
> My policy is this:
>
> 1. Always use C comments. Perferably like this:
[snip]
> 2. When I need to comment out large pieces of code+comments, I enclose
> the
> code between #if 0 and #endif. VERY effective, and a lot less ugly
> than // comments.
>
> I do use // comments while debugging because it's kinda easy to comment
> out one line like that, but I try to avoid them in code I distribute.
>
> Of course, if everybody here is for C++ comments I can adapt :)
FWIW I prefer C++ comments for short one-liners. Longer ones should
be C-style. Commenting out a large block of code I'd use "#if 0", or
sometimes "#if USE_THE_OLD_BROKEN_METHOD" or something descriptive
like that.
Chris
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