On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 11:58:20AM -1000, Joshua Hoblitt wrote: : It occurred to me that other day that in our "in house" C code we : somewhat frequently use an idiom that's not easily translated into Perl : 5. Our rule is that if your commenting out more then 1 or 2 lines of : code that you wrap it in a CPP if statement. The logic being that : if you haven't deleted the code then it must have some reason of hanging : around (and you may actually want to use it again someday). This is most : often the case with specialized debugging code. E.g. : : #if 0 : ... : #endif
if 0 { ... } : The great thing about this is that the you only have to flip the 0 to 1 : to re-enable the code. E.g. : : #if 1 : (magic now happens)... : #endif if 1 { (magic now happens)... } Larry