On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 13:41:33 GMT, Roel Schroeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Roy Smith schreef:
...
>> /* */ also allows for some truly spectacularly bad coding practices. Not
>> long ago, I ran into some real-life code where a previous developer had
>> commented out about 50 lines of C++ code by just putting a /* at the top
>> and a */ at the bottom. I was tearing my hair out trying to figure out how
>> the code worked until I noticed what he had done.
>
> That happened to me a few times. These days I use an editor with syntax
> highlighting that shows comments in another color than code. That helps
> tremendously.
Syntax highlighting, same here. Plus version control so you can see who did
it, and make a mental note not to trust that person in the future ;-)
("#if 0" in C and C++ are better choices, but only marginally. Best is to
remove the code unless you are sure it's needed again soon. Works in all
languages.)
/Jorgen
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