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Re: commenting [message #23791 is a reply to message #23788]

Tue, 20 February 2001 08:51

Christopher W. O'Dell is currently offline

Christopher W. O'Dell
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Registered: February 2001

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that is BEAUTIFUL. perfect. Now my repetitive motion injuries
may begin the long healing process!

Thanks,
Chris

David Fanning wrote:

> Christopher W. O'Dell (odell@cmb.physics.wisc.edu) writes:
>
>> This is probably wishful thinking, but is there any way to
>> comment out a large section of code as in C,
>> where you don't have to insert a ';' on every line of code,
>> but you can use a beginning and ending comment delimiter?
>> I have this idea that there might be secret delimiters that
>> i have not yet heard about in IDL. And I'm very lazy and
>> have often longed for this feature.
>
> It's wishful thinking.
>
> But you can always temporarily wrap code you want to ignore
> in an IF statement:
>
> ignore = 1
> IF ignore NE 1 THEN BEGIN
>
> ... code to ignore here...
>
> ENDIF ; of code I am ignoring
>
> It's not elegant, but if the code you want to ignore
> consists of a lot of lines, it cuts down on repetitive
> motion injuries. And you can easily go back and forth
> just by setting the ignore flag. :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
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