Re: running xy 3+ under windows xp - aarrgghhh!

[cld@xxxxxxxx (Carl Distefano)]

Reply to note from "J. R. Fox"  Tue, 24 Jun 2003
12:13:09 -0800

> So how do you comment out Startup lines in 3+ ?

LaBels, usually. Either use GoLabel-LaBel pairs to redirect the
flow of execution around the comment:

 Offset PRompt messages 1 space to the right:
BC d yk=1

Or put the comment itself in a freestanding LaBel:

BC d yk=1

The former can be read in Draft view; the latter requires eXPanded.

A major difference from v4+ is that lots of LaBels (especially long,
textual LaBels) slow a program down measurably, whereas ";*;"
statements don't. Programs can be commented as heavily as you like
in v4+ (albeit one line at a time, each line starting with ";*;");
there's no drag on performance. Of course, at today's processing
speeds the difference is less egregious -- but still. A billionth
of a second here, a billionth of a second there, and before you know
it....

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