Should I remove comments and whitespace?

Conrad11 · 15 Oct 2006 at 18:05

Hi there,

I am new to windows programming and was wondering, when compiling the program does it exclude whitespace and comments automatically? Specifically in VB.NET?

Thanks.

NathanE · 15 Oct 2006 at 18:09

Yes of course it does. Comments also are excluded.

Also VB relies on whitespace to determine where code statements end, so you'd have a job removing them anyway

Jotun · 15 Oct 2006 at 18:11

When compiling, comments and whitespace make no difference to the final filesize.

toString · 15 Oct 2006 at 18:14

Out of interest, is the same to be said for Java?

NathanE · 15 Oct 2006 at 18:18

The same is to be said for _all_ compiled languages.

n3crius · 15 Oct 2006 at 20:00

understand that what you write is not exactly what is executed...

your code goes into a compiler which generates the code that eventually runs. it does nothing with your standard comments. same goes for whitespace.