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From: bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: This one bit me today
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Date: 27 Oct 89 20:11:36 GMT
References: <2651@hub.UUCP> <1989Oct23.160518.28851@utzoo.uucp> <1989Oct25.090616.19276@gdt.bath.ac.uk>
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In article <1989Oct25.090616.19276@gdt.bath.ac.uk> exspes@gdr.bath.ac.uk (P E Smee) writes:
<If contents nest, then you can comment out blocks of your code
<for various trial purposes, without having to worry about what's in the
<block you comment out.

#if 0
#endif

pairs work quite nicely and portably.