Condition out

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condition out
Usage: vt.

See Also: comment out


condition out: vt.

To prevent a section of code from being compiled by surrounding it with a conditional-compilation directive whose condition is always false. The canonical examples of these directives are #if 0 (or #ifdef notdef, though some find the latter bletcherous) and #endif in C. Compare comment out.

Sources

Source: condition out, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.


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