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by duskwuff 1023 days ago
You're probably looking for "#if 0" / "#endif".
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TillE 1023 days ago
Yeah it took me a while to adopt this common practice when I need to "comment out" a large block of code. Just use the preprocessor, it's much simpler.
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Karellen 1022 days ago
FWIW, replacing comments with whitespace is also done by the preprocessor.
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billforsternz 1023 days ago
The fact that you can't do this with new fangled languages is one of the reasons I don't use new fangled languages
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zzo38computer 1023 days ago
That and other things I dislike about many of the new fangled languages.
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LoganDark 1023 days ago
I prefer using completely unfangled languages, thank you very much.
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