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From: Keith Thompson <kst@cts.com>
Subject: Re: Three simple questions
Date: 2000/10/14
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Pascal Obry <p.obry@der.edf.fr> 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?
> 
> Any good IDE will do that. AdaGIDE, ada-mode, Glide...

Actually, any decent text editor should allow you to do this fairly
easily.  Certainly both vi and emacs do.

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