\@gobble (was Re: LaTeX environment for comments)

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From: Hartmut Frommert
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 10:19

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A side remark:

hong@cithe501.cithep.caltech.edu (John Hong) writes:
..
>In writing a long document using LaTeX, I want to comment out large
>sections of material once in a while.  I don't want to delete them
>because I may want them back later.   [..]
>       \def\comment#1{}

Such a command ('\@gobble') is defined in latex.tex, so you could also
        \def\comment{\@gobble}
in a *.sty file or
        \makeatletter\def\comment{\@gobble}\maheatother 
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