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[โ€“] dmrzl@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Comments are the worst as they are ignored by refactoring. That's the reason if (false) is actually really good for temporarily disabled code.

[โ€“] jormaig@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

I never thought of that. That's quite smart!