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Aaron Gates
Aaron Gates

Reputation: 469

Comment rest of file in C#

In some languages, like Scheme, there's a way to comment out the rest of a file. Is there a way of doing this in C# without putting */ at the end of the file and /* where the comment begins? I'm just curious.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 58

Answers (1)

gmiley
gmiley

Reputation: 6604

No, there is no method of commenting-to-end in C#. You only have // and /* ... */ available to you. Here is an example of why you would not ever want a comment-to-end style in C#...

Consider the following:

namespace TestNamespace
{
   public class TestClass
   {
      public void DoSomething()
      {
         // Here is a comment-to-end-of-line.

      }
      /* The entire DoSomethinElse member is commented out...
      public void DoSomethingElse() 
      { 

      }
      */
   }
}

The above shows how rest-of-line and block style comments work. Consider if you had a way to comment out the rest of a file, let's use *** to indicate that the rest of the document should be commented out as an example.

namespace TestNamespace
{
   public class TestClass
   {
      public void DoSomething()
      {
         // Here is a comment-to-end-of-line.

      }
      *** The rest of the document should be commented out from here...
      public void DoSomethingElse() 
      { 

      }

   }
}

In the situation above, what you would end up doing is effectively this:

namespace TestNamespace
{
   public class TestClass
   {
      public void DoSomething()
      {
         // Here is a comment-to-end-of-line.

      }
      /* The rest of the document should be commented out from here...
      public void DoSomethingElse() 
      { 

      }
   }
}
       That includes all of the remaining block closings, which will cause compile errors.
      */

Without some way to tell the compiler to stop skipping lines, your code blocks will be unclosed and your code will not compile.

Upvotes: 1

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