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When writing papers in grad school, we'd leave placeholders in all the time, but always prefixed with the string "ZZZ", so they'd be really easy to search for.

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I sometimes use similar approach with code to indicate really hacky code that should be removed before any bigger releases.

I think that's what //FIXME: is for. TODO and FIXME are both commonly supported, as well as a few others.

Similarly, when adding debugging-aid print statements, I prefix them with ">>>", and make sure I don't use it elsewhere.

why not "debug: "?

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