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++. -- 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