On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 11:58:20AM -1000, Joshua Hoblitt wrote:
: It occurred to me that other day that in our "in house" C code we
: somewhat frequently use an idiom that's not easily translated into Perl
: 5. Our rule is that if your commenting out more then 1 or 2 lines of
: code that you wrap it in a CPP if statement. The logic being that
: if you haven't deleted the code then it must have some reason of hanging
: around (and you may actually want to use it again someday). This is most
: often the case with specialized debugging code. E.g.
:
: #if 0
: ...
: #endif
if 0 {
...
}
: The great thing about this is that the you only have to flip the 0 to 1
: to re-enable the code. E.g.
:
: #if 1
: (magic now happens)...
: #endif
if 1 {
(magic now happens)...
}
Larry
