Conditional compilation

[holger krekel]

James J. Besemer wrote:
> jb wrote:
> 
> > It does not seem to be possible to "comment out" blocks of code, which would
> > be a very nice feature for testing purposes. (Maybe I can do it with """
> > but that looks a bit cumbersome.)
> 
> Prefix your code segment with
> 
>     if 0:
> 
> and indent it a level.

""" and 'if 0:' are the standard possibilities. I guess one would
need a truly developer oriented IDE to implement this indepently from
language (handling say a all-included-file and a work-file separetely).

Can't emacs or vi do folding/collapsing several lines into one line 
and allow writing out non-folded lines only? 

> --jb

jb answers jb. maybe i am joining a monologue?

:-),
    holger