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From: "Istvan.Simon" <simo@ws6a17.gud.siemens.co.at>
Subject: Re: Any research putting c above ada?
Date: 1997/04/28
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Date: 1997-04-28T00:00:00+00:00
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Mike Haertel wrote:
> In article <5jr4ak$dsm@bcrkh13.bnr.ca>, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> >language support comments that are delimited by a special character (or
> >character pair) and terminated at the end of the line.  This is utterly a
> >religious issue.
> That's not a religious issue, there's an actual reliability issue.
> If a language has Pascal/PL1/C style comments, it's easy to accidently
> comment out large blocks of code by forgetting a comment close
> delimiter.  I've done it in C.  Often the result will still compile,

Never comment out large block of code using /* */ in C.
	Use 
#if 0

#endif
	instead.

BTW this is a common practice and a Good Thing.

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