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comment out
vt. To surround a section of code with comment delimiters or to prefix every
line in the section with a comment marker; this prevents it from being
compiled or interpreted. Often done when the code is redundant or obsolete,
but is being left in the source to make the intent of the active code
clearer; also when the code in that section is broken and you want to bypass
it in order to debug some other part of the code. Compare condition out ,
usually the preferred technique in languages (such as C ) that make it
possible.