Re: Commenting out blocks of code in FF

["rick baird" <rick.baird@xxxxxxxxx>]

Buck,

you don't even need the U1.  you could just comment out the exsr
statement - you're allowed to have subroutines that are never
referenced, just not the other way around.

just call it the "rainy day module".  (write extra code, just in case
somebody needs it later)

http://www.waterfall2006.com/gorman.html

On 10/17/06, Buck <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Karen: Something we just thought of was: Now, how do you un-comment
>  > these lines when you want to start using the code again?
>
>
> By hand.
>
> A different method would have been to insert a different comment, like
> //*.  Then, un-doing it would have been easier.
>
> My preference is the compiler define, but a trick I used years ago was
> to put the block of code in a subroutine and condition the EXSR on an
> external indicator like NU1.  Leave U1 off (i.e. normally) and all the
> code executes as always.  CHGJOB SWS(10000000) then CALL mypgm, and the
> block of code doesn't run.  You can flip it on the fly without
> re-compiling.
>   --buck
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