Conditional compilation

[Garth T Kidd]

> It does not seem to be possible to "comment out" blocks of code, which would 
> be a very nice feature for testing purposes. (Maybe I can do it with """ 
> but that looks a bit cumbersome.)
> 
> Any ideas, hint, proposals?

One thing I love in UserTalk (of Frontier, Manilla and Radio UserLand
fame) is the 'bundle' keyword that simply provides another variable
scope and bundles up a few lines of code.

In the Frontier/Radio environment all programming is done in an
outliner, and bundling turns out to be a whole lot nicer than it
originally looks -- so much so, that these days I curse as much about
there being no 'bundle' in Python as I do about most Python features
lacking in UserTalk. :)

Compare:: 

    # do this 

    ... code to do this

    # do that

    ... code to do that

With::

    bundle # do this
        ... code to do this
 
    bundle # do that
        ... code to do that

I'm almost tested to hack it: 

    if 1: # do this
        ... code to do this

... but that's a little ghastly. If I could figure out a way to add a
keyword in pure Python, I'd do it. :)

Regards,
Garth.