So like probably many people out there I usually comment out code temporarily, mostly for debugging purposes. I currently put something like **DEBUG** or whatever that is easily searched for, but I thought having the compiler output a warning (or even an error) whenever it finds code that is temporarily commented out could be useful. I thought of using an annotation, but annotations can't be used to mark comments.
Does anyone know of a better approach than putting an easily searchable string in the commented-out section of code?
At least Eclipse allows you to use (and define your own) markers put in comments, that can be easily listed afterwards. There's at least TODO and XXX, but I believe you could make your own as well.