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Re: Stupidest Programming Mistakes
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Originally Posted by seg9585
In trying to comment stuff out with "/* */", we realize that we comment out other stuff already commented out using the same method, and whenever it reached that comment's "*/" it would end, causing a bunch of syntax errors throughout the rest of the uncommented code, and we couldnt figure out for the life of us why it was reading that code...
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Little trick Mark McLeod showed me for that:
Code:
#ifdef //This is actually a comment block, #1
code
code
code
#endif //This is the end of comment block #1
Since the #ifdef is missing something to check, it always fails, so any code in it never compiles, doesn't get stopped by */, quite useful
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