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From: Lars Poulsen <lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com>
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Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2024 23:25:20 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-12-02, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Dec 2024 09:02:09 -0800, John Ames wrote:
>
>> On 26 Nov 2024 19:31:56 GMT rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Early C++ was pretty awful. I understand iterators and other arcane
>>> bits have been cleaned up a lot but I have no need to use general C++.
>>> Arduino, Pico, and other microcontrollers use C/C++ but it's a limited
>>> subset of C++.
>> 
>> Ever since C99 added // comments, I have seen zero reason to bother with
>> C++.
>
> They were a real improvement. Commenting out a block that already had a 
> comment was painful. U think it was C99 that also allowed declaring a 
> variable close to where you were using it rather than a laundry list at 
> the head of a function.

Best way to comment out stuff like that is to enclose it in a pair of
	#if 0
	...
	#endif