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MyASPN >> Mail Archive >> perl5-porters
perl5-porters
Re: RFC: multiline comments
by Tels other posts by this author
May 23 2007 9:41AM messages near this date
RFC: multiline comments | Re: RFC: multiline comments
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Moin,

On Wednesday 23 May 2007 12:36:03 Alexandr Ciornii wrote:
>  Hello!
> 
>  One of the Perl's missing features is multiline comments.
>  I propose to add Perl 6 style comments.
>  example:
>  #[
>  comment
>  ]
>  Or
>  #[[ ... ]]
>  #( ... )
>  Any bracket combination is good, so it allows commenting Perl
>  operators and nested comments.
>  See
>  http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/syn/S02.html#Whitespace_and_Comments
>  (dev version:
>  http://feather.perl6.nl/syn/S02.html#Whitespace_and_Comments)
> 
>  This feature should be activated by 'use 5.10' or 'use feature
>  "multiline_comments_or_some_other_name"'.
> 
>  It would be more convinient than marking each line with '#', or using
>  =for comment
>  =cut

Wow, this is surely handy. Thanx a lot for this trick :)

As for your question,

I am not qualified to answer :D

All the best,

tels


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Thread:
Alexandr Ciornii
Tels
Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Jos I. Boumans

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