> On Jan 14, 2017, at 6:28 PM, Xiaodi Wu <[email protected]> wrote: > > This has been brought up on this list before. The conclusion of the previous > thread on this topic was that there is a way to do this: > > #if false > // put your code here > #endif >
This would not check the code for compilability within the surrounding code. This requires more than a syntax check. > It does not allow you to comment out fragments of a single statement, but the > incremental value of devoting time to additionally support that is, it would > seem, low. > > On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 17:18 Amir Michail via swift-evolution > <[email protected]> wrote: > The code in a “code comment" must compile (not just be syntactically correct) > yet must not have any effect on the resulting executable. > > For example, commented entries in an array would be checked for compilability > but would not be included in the executable. > > Such “code comments" would allow you to have code/data that is currently > unused but is constantly checked to be valid just in case you want to use it > in the future. > > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
