Re: Continue/next statement, static variables, and block comments

[bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)]

In article <4t2ohl$brq@michp1.redstone.army.mil>,
Kevin J. Weise <kweise@c3i-ccmail.sed.redstone.army.mil> wrote:
>While I haven't changed my mind about this, I have looked at the ada-mode 
>for emacs, and found that you can comment and uncomment regions of code.  
>Certainly, you have your supporters in the Ada community, Mr. Abzug, and 
>they have provided you with a solution!  If you aren't familiar with it, 
>emacs is a great tool (esp. as augmented by the ada mode, v2.12) and I 
>highly recommend it; but it does require some getting used to.  I hope you 
>can utilize it in your programming environment.

The nice thing about the Ada-and-Emacs-combined solution is that (1)
it's easy to comment out code, and (2) it's easy to see that the code is
commented out, because every line is marked with "--", so you don't have
to know that 50 lines above your editor window, there's a begin-comment
marker.

IMHO, commented-out code should be a very temporary thing.  I've been
known to comment out code, but I always do something about it within a
small number of days.  I don't think commented-out code is acceptable in
a final product delivered to a customer.  And even in the temporary
case, there ought to be a comment explaining the commenting-out.

- Bob