[fpc-pascal] Using constants instead of comments

[wkitty42 at windstream.net]

On 04/17/2018 11:06 PM, James Richters wrote:
> I have a whole section of diagnostic writeln's in a program, and it's tedious to comment them all out/in as needed.   I'm curious if doing something like


what's wrong with traditional IFDEF?? use something like this...

{$IFDEF DEBUG}
writeln ('blahblahblah');
writeln (LOGFILE,'blahblahblah');
flush (LOGFILE);
{$ENDIF}


then you simply create the DEBUG define...

-DDEBUG

if you don't want it, leave it out and none of the bracketd code is even included...


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