ronald@ibmpcug.co.uk (Ronald Khoo) (10/26/89)
In article <1989Oct25.090616.19276@gdt.bath.ac.uk> exspes@gdr.bath.ac.uk (P E Smee) writes: > I've known PL/1 programmers to avoid commenting > their code because (since PL/1 comments don't nest) it would inhibit this > handy testing trick. Well, I don't know PL/1, so maybe it's a language/compilation system deficiency, but it sounds more like incompetence to me... what's wrong with stubs and new code in a fresh source file ? Anyway, back to C, you have #if 0 (#ifdef notdef to you ancient lot :-) to fall back on... Any followups are probably gonna be religious in nature, so I'm taking this discussion to alt.religion.computers, or maybe it'll die (please!) ? -- Ronald.Khoo@ibmpcug.CO.UK (The IBM PC User Group, PO Box 360, Harrow HA1 4LQ) Path: ...mc$CPU!ukc!ibmpcug!ronald Phone: +44-1-863 1191 Fax: +44-1-863 6095 $Header: /users/ronald/.signature,v 1.2 89/10/16 17:14:28 ronald Exp $ :-)