skip how does it work?

[kryton9]

As you can tell I am going through the help again this time focusing things I couldn't figure out.

I couldn't get skip to work? Is it a command or just a reference word to find how to skip code with the commenting symbols?

[Charles Pegge]

Skip ( ... ) is an alteranative way of excluding code from compilation.

/*  .. */ commenting out is safer during debugging because Skip is sensitive to unbalanced brackets but is it has its uses:

Code: [Select]

'excluding blocks of code
def contract skip
'including blocks of code:
def contract

contract (
...
)

You also have preprocessor:

#define contract

#ifdef contract
...
#endif

Charles

[kryton9]

Here is a simple working example.

Code: OxygenBasic

1. skip (
2.  
3. print " will I print from inside the skip block? "
4.  
5. )
6.  
7. print " I am outside of the skip block and should print. "