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skj
on Feb 24, 2014
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What happens when placeholder text doesn’t get rep...
When writing papers in grad school, we'd leave placeholders in all the time, but always prefixed with the string "ZZZ", so they'd be really easy to search for.
k00pa
on Feb 24, 2014
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I sometimes use similar approach with code to indicate really hacky code that should be removed before any bigger releases.
iLoch
on Feb 24, 2014
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I think that's what //FIXME: is for. TODO and FIXME are both commonly supported, as well as a few others.
gknoy
on Feb 24, 2014
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Similarly, when adding debugging-aid print statements, I prefix them with ">>>", and make sure I don't use it elsewhere.
gcb0
on Feb 24, 2014
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why not "debug: "?
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