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<h3 class="section">4.3 Deleted Code</h3>
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<a name="index-commenting-out-code"></a>
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<p>If you replace or delete a part of the program but want to keep the old
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code around for future reference, you often cannot simply comment it
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out. Block comments do not nest, so the first comment inside the old
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