Moderately on topic: If you want to do commenting in and out of code during testing, the trick I've found is to use "/**/"
For instance... 1: printf( "line 1" ); 2: /**/ 3: printf( "line 2" ); 4: /**/ 5: printf( "line 3" ); If you want to temporarily comment out #3, you remove the last "/" from #2 so that it looks like: 2: /** ...and it's commented out; you don't have to touch #4. Sure beats having to add/remove whole lines of remark tags. Tnx & Rgds... David Flor ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Planning Group International 305-253-0100 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Pat Magnan Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 3:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [hlcoders] #if 0 #endif -- isn't a /* */ 'better form'? Cool. There is a reason to do that that escaped me. Haven't come across that scenario yet, but hey, I'll keep looking, I'm sure there's a file or two in there I've never looked at ;) > > Perhaps there's a reason for doing this that escapes me though. > > If you have /* */s in the cuntion already, the */ will terminate the block > function and force you to go back and add more /*s, which is a pain. Take > this for example: > > doBlah(vec1, vec2); > /* Commented... > doBlah2(vec2, vec3, length); > */ > doBlah3(length); > > If you wanted to get rid of this whole block by commenting it out with /* > */, VC will interpret the end of the comment at the first */, leaving > doBlah3 to possibly wreak havoc. With #if 0, the block is removed by the > preprocessor and there's no chance of comments mucking it up. > > -James "Corvidae" Williams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Administrator, Wavelength Forums (http://www.planethalflife.com/wavelength) > Co-Leader / Coder, Underhive (http://www.underhive.com) > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > --------------------------------------- Eight percent of life is showing up. -- Woody Allen _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
