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On Sat, 10 Jan 2026 20:52:12 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

> On Sat, 10 Jan 2026 19:39:05 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> 
>> I like to be a little more explicit, so I say "#ifdef DELETE_THIS".
> 
> We have version control nowadays. You can actually delete stuff from
> your source, and trust to the version history to keep a record of what
> used to be there.

It's getting hard to cover your tracks. We used Subversion and 'svn blame' 
was useful.  If you were more polite you could use 'svn praise'.