On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 06:31:44PM -0700, Jonathan Lang wrote: : Delimiter-terminated quotes. Really nice idea. : : I'd put the dot inside the comment: "#.x", with x being an optional : quote delimiter (excluding dots). If a delimiter is included, the : comment is terminated by the matching quote delimiter; if absent, the : comment is terminated by the next dot. : : $x#.[ ].foo(); : $x.#.[ ]foo(); : $x#. ..foo(); : $x.#. .foo(); : : would all become : : $x.foo(); : : The third form would be legal, if a bit illegible.
I really prefer the form where .#() looks like a no-op method call, and can provide the visual dot for a postfix extender. It also is somewhat less likely to happen by accident the #., I think. And I think the front-end shape of .# is more recognizable as different from #, while #. requires a small amount of visual lookahead, and is the same "square" shape on the front, and could easily be confused with a normal line-ending comment. Larry
