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- <span id="Deleted-Code-1"></span><h3 class="section">4.3 Deleted Code</h3>
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- <p>If you replace or delete a part of the program but want to keep the old
- code around for future reference, you often cannot simply comment it
- out. Block comments do not nest, so the first comment inside the old
- code will end the commenting-out. The probable result is a flood of
- syntax errors.
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- <p>One way to avoid this problem is to use an always-false conditional
- instead. For instance, put <code>#if 0</code> before the deleted code and
- <code>#endif</code> after it. This works even if the code being turned
- off contains conditionals, but they must be entire conditionals
- (balanced ‘<samp>#if</samp>’ and ‘<samp>#endif</samp>’).
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- <p>Some people use <code>#ifdef notdef</code> instead. This is risky, because
- <code>notdef</code> might be accidentally defined as a macro, and then the
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- often contain unbalanced single-quote characters (known in English as
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