From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!CAD:teklabs!terryl
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: My Two Cents On Nested Comments
Article-I.D.: teklabs.1580
Posted: Thu Dec  2 23:52:31 1982
Received: Sat Dec  4 10:23:35 1982


     Well, I must agree that commenting out code for obscure reasons is a
bad practice, and that #ifdef'ing code is better, but I have one complaint
about that: most #ifdef'ed code I've seen is of the form #ifdef machine, or
#ifdef FASTwhatever, which makes the code clear on what it is supposed to
do, but I can't count how many times I've seen code with: #ifdef notdef.
I've always wondered about why people did that. Of course, the code that is
#ifdef'ed that way is never commented. Makes one wonder what the programmer
was trying to convey (or do).

				Never afraid to comment out my name,
				/* Terry Laskodi */