[fpc-pascal] {$DEFINE DEVEL}

[pascalX at piments.com]

On 11/10/17 10:13, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 10:00:15 +0100
> pascalX at piments.com wrote:
> 
>> Hi ,
> 
> First of all: Please do not "reply" when starting a new thread.
> 
>   
>> I had a little trick that I used on BP and Delphi code that does not
>> work on Lazarus.
> 
> The compiler is FPC.
> 
>   
>> I define compiler variable which I could toggle on and off by adding a
>> second opening curly bracket, since the define only works if the line
>> starts {$
>>
>>
>> {$DEFINE DEVEL}
>>
>>
>> If I start the line {{$  Delphi ignores it but Lazarus then highlights
>> the rest of the code as a comment and it fails to compile.
>>
>> main.pas(172,1) Warning: Comment level 2 found
>>
>>
>> Is this a bug or a feature?
> 
> It's a feature. You can turn it off with
> {$ModeSwitch NestedComments-}
> 
> It is disabled by default in $mode delphi.
>   
>> Can anyone suggest a similar one key trick ?
> 
> Any char will do:
> { $directive}
> 
> Mattias

Thanks for info about NestedComments. Mattias.

While I did hit "reply to list" in my email client  to get list email in 
the To: field when posting this new subject , I then removed the old 
subject with "Re. [ .. old subject title ]  and put in a new subject 
title: {$DEFINE DEVEL}

It wasn't a reply because they was no Re and it had a new title.

I should have deleted the  [fpc-pascal]  as well . Sorry.