FM> As Paul said to you "//" is C++ not Borland. And you could still use
FM> "/*...*/" as a one-line comment, as you to with
"{...}" in Pascal. But
FM> it's the nestability thing which is such a big advantage. I comment my
FM> code a lot, with {}, and it's just so easy while debugging to surround
FM> some bits you don't want to use in that test with (*...*).

In C, you use #if 0, #endif to mask out large blocks of code.  BFN.  Paul. 
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