Re: commenting

["Christopher W. O'Dell" <odell(at)cmb.physics.wisc.edu>]

that is BEAUTIFUL.  perfect.  Now my repetitive motion injuries
may begin the long healing process!

Thanks,
Chris

David Fanning wrote:

> Christopher W. O'Dell (odell@cmb.physics.wisc.edu) writes:
>
> > This is probably wishful thinking, but is there any way to
> > comment out a large section of code as in C,
> > where you don't have to insert a ';' on every line of code,
> > but you can use a beginning and ending comment delimiter?
> > I have this idea that there might be secret delimiters that
> > i have not yet heard about in IDL.  And I'm very lazy and
> > have often longed for this feature.
>
> It's wishful thinking.
>
> But you can always temporarily wrap code you want to ignore
> in an IF statement:
>
>    ignore = 1
>    IF ignore NE 1 THEN BEGIN
>
>       ... code to ignore here...
>
>    ENDIF ; of code I am ignoring
>
> It's not elegant, but if the code you want to ignore
> consists of a lot of lines, it cuts down on repetitive
> motion injuries. And you can easily go back and forth
> just by setting the ignore flag. :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
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