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tempodox on Oct 31, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: OS X 10.10 – Source Code

You still can put one on top of that, like this:

    #if 20141031     // Date as a valid number != 0
      // Active code
    #else
      // Inactive code
    #endif

Helps documenting experimental alternatives, even without SCM.

gpvos on Oct 31, 2014 [–]

This is really terrible practice. You should only do this if you really have no SCM available.

tempodox on Oct 31, 2014 | [–]

I'm talking about experimental alternatives. This is not for production code. And it's still better than just out-commenting code to deactivate it.

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