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Re: commenting [message #23793 is a reply to message #23792]

Tue, 20 February 2001 08:17

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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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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		Re: commenting By: Alex Schuster on Wed, 21 February 2001 04:54
		Re: commenting By: Paul Woodford on Tue, 20 February 2001 11:04
		Re: commenting By: Christopher W. O'Dell on Tue, 20 February 2001 08:51
		Re: commenting By: John-David T. Smith on Tue, 20 February 2001 08:43
		Re: commenting By: davidf on Tue, 20 February 2001 08:17
		Re: commenting By: jeyadev on Wed, 21 February 2001 09:59
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