On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 13:41:33 GMT, Roel Schroeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Roy Smith schreef: ... >> /* */ 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.
Syntax highlighting, same here. Plus version control so you can see who did it, and make a mental note not to trust that person in the future ;-) ("#if 0" in C and C++ are better choices, but only marginally. Best is to remove the code unless you are sure it's needed again soon. Works in all languages.) /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu \X/ snipabacken.dyndns.org> R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list