On 3. May 2007, at 05:03, Nithin Reddy wrote:
Yeah, I knew about that. It doesn't work right. If you have /* */ comment in the block of code you are commenting then it will won't comment out everything after that /* */ comment.
Yeah, /* … */ doesn’t nest, that’s really a language limitation — for this reason I am using // as the primary comment character, since that nests nicely.
The default for C and Objective-C was having /* … */ as primary, but I just changed that. FYI this is a preference in the C bundle.
Plus, how do you undo it when you want to uncomment the code?
It is a toggle. I.e. just hit ⌘/ again.
Actually how do others disable parts of the code they are not intersted in having executed? I would assume it is a common problem, either that, or I am the only one who doesn't trust their own code.
With // as the primary comment character, I think you’ll find ⌘/ nicer, as you can then comment partially commented regions.
But I often make use of #if 0 … #endif to disable code in C. This also nests nicely and TextMate will render the disabled part as a comment, and it allows you to use #else, for example:
#if 0 // old code #else // new code #endif
Now you can just change 0 to 01 (or just 1) to switch from the new code back to the old vice versa.