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From: Simon Wright <simon@pogner.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Three simple questions
Date: 2000/10/11
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Frank Christiny <fchris@pdq.net> writes:

> 3.  How can one block-comment in Ada?
>     It can become cumbersome sometimes, adding all those "--"s in
>     front of a large block of code one wants to "test out" on the fly.
>     Again, are there any good technical-engineering reasons why this
>     feature was left out?

If it's executable, you can say

  if False
    -- stuff
  end if

but really your IDE should do it (in Emacs ada-mode, 'C-c ;' to
comment and 'C-c :' to uncomment; Apex has this too)