multiline comments

[Edward Elliott]

Sion Arrowsmith wrote:
> It appears to me that our fundamental difference is that you see value
> in long-term preservation of sections of commented-out code without
> any kind of real comment as to what's going on, whereas I consider
> this to be appallingly bad practice.

Then you're reading too much into my examples.  Real code would be 
accompanied by descriptive comments.