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A tip on commenting in debugging

Maybe you’re like me who would use block comments to comment out pieces of code for debugging purposes. I used to do just this:

/*
// some code here to be commented out
*/

Well it looks fine as it is until I need to un-comment it.

// some code here to be commented out
*/

Wait a minute… The code is broken, but how?

Oops, I forgot to also remove the closing mark for the block comment.

And this just happens too often…

But just lately I found a way to save this dumb me.

/*
// some code here to be commented out
//*/

Voila! Now I only need to remove the ‘/*’ part for testing.

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