Roy Smith schreef: > Magnus Lycka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> An editor that adds/removes '# ' in the beginning of each >> marked line is fairly bullet proof. Adding e.g. /* to the >> beginning of a block you want to comment out, & */ to the >> end, breaks if you have /* */ style comments in the block! > > /* */ also allows for some truly spectacularly bad coding practices. Not > long ago, I ran into some real-life code where a previous developer had > commented out about 50 lines of C++ code by just putting a /* at the top > and a */ at the bottom. I was tearing my hair out trying to figure out how > the code worked until I noticed what he had done.
That happened to me a few times. These days I use an editor with syntax highlighting that shows comments in another color than code. That helps tremendously. -- If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton Roel Schroeven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
