Duncan Booth schreef:
> Would you care to name a few languages which support nested block
> comments? There really aren't many: ML as you mentioned; Standard Pascal 
> doesn't permit nesting of comments but *some* implementations do allow it.
> 
> Want to comment out a block of code in C++? The only (nearly) reliable way 
> is to insert single-line comments down the block. You can't use a block 
> comment if there are any other block comments inside the code you want to 
> block out.

Depends, some compilers support that. But the preferred way, which works 
very well, is to use preprocessor directives:

#if 0
     ...
#endif

Works in both C and C++.

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Roel Schroeven
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