Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site tellab2.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!tellab1!tellab2!thoth From: thoth@tellab2.UUCP (Marcus Hall) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Commenting Out Commented Code Message-ID: <187@tellab2.UUCP> Date: Tue, 16-Oct-84 13:18:24 EDT Article-I.D.: tellab2.187 Posted: Tue Oct 16 13:18:24 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Oct-84 06:09:12 EDT References: <12931@sri-arpa.UUCP> <269@callan.UUCP> Reply-To: thoth@tellab2.UUCP (Marcus Hall) Organization: Tellabs, Inc., Lisle, Ill. Lines: 25 Summary: >>The best and most widely accepted way to prevent a block of code from >>being compiled while still leaving the code in the file is as follows: >> >>#ifdef notdef > >But what if notdef is defined? Clearly, you want > >#ifdef notdef >#ifndef notdef > code code code code /* but I don't like code! */ wonderfull code >#endif >#endif > >This will always work! :-) Slightly simpler is: #if 0 code code code code /* but I don't like code! */ wonderfull code #endif marcus hall ..!ihnp4!tellab1!tellab2!thoth -- marcus hall ..!ihnp4!tellab1!tellab2!thoth