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Comment by Robin_Message | Hacker News Reader

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If that's the only issue, you can do:

    /*/ Version one, currently commented
    /*/ Version two, currently active /**/

And a single star switches from version two to version one.

But I agree this shouldn't be left in production code; it's just a handy trick for switching between two blocks of code†. An #ifdef is also good, but that's C/C++ only.

† Whoever suggested that some editors can comment a block of code missed the point utterly - which is to switch between code blocks easily.

The trouble with this is that you now have to switch "commented" to "active" and vice versa, when I think the aim was to have a single-char switch (although the syntax is pretty horrible, to be honest).

You would just leave out the comment text.

That one also has a single character switch – just add another star on the first line. It avoids the nested comment issue of the version posted.

Every text editor can uncomment a block of code with a macro. Why on Earth would the number of chracters matter?

And every language has the IF construct.

And of you are flipping between two implementation so frequently, your actual problem is that you have no idea how your program works.

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