Larry Wall wrote: > I really prefer the form where .#() looks like a no-op method call, > and can provide the visual dot for a postfix extender.
Although inline and multiline comments are very likely to be used in situations where method calls simply aren't appropriate: .#(+-------+ | Hello! | +--------+) is something that I wouldn't be surprised to see. > 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. All true. But it avoids the headache of figuring out whether "..#" is supposed to parse as a double-dot followed by a line-gobbling comment or as a single dot followed by a delimited comment. -- Jonathan "Dataweaver" Lang
