>Johan Vromans writes:
>>Well, my editor has no problems to put #'s in front of a section of
>>lines, nor to remove them.
>Not every editor does this. Perl is supposed to be flexible and make things
>easy. It is not more flexible nor easier to require a programmer to use a
>certain type of editor.
If you are using an underpowered word-processor instead of a
programmers' editor, this is a personal problem of yours which you
should not expect Perl to solve.
>I disagree that the "only" use of multiline comments is to (temporarily)
>disable a piece of code. Again we should not presume to force programmers to
>do anything just one way.
"Sometimes what you do not put into a language is as important
as what you do." --Dennis
What Johan said has at least the ring of truth about it. Maybe more.
I do not understand the allegation that the current situation is
in any fashion confusing. Moreover, the solutions actually employed
are certainly more legible than those proposed. Consider
/*
This particularly rapid,
unintelligible patter
isn't generally heard
and if it is,
it doesn't matter.
*/
versus
/*
* This particularly rapid,
* unintelligible patter
* isn't generally heard
* and if it is,
* it doesn't matter.
*/
Which brings us to
=for comment
This particularly rapid,
unintelligible patter
isn't generally heard
and if it is,
it doesn't matter.
or
=begin comment
This particularly rapid,
unintelligible patter
isn't generally heard
and if it is,
it doesn't matter.
=end comment
as compared with
# This particularly rapid,
# unintelligible patter
# isn't generally heard
# and if it is,
# it doesn't matter.
which, if you really must (though I seldom counsel its use), can
trivially be emblazoned using
########
# This particularly rapid,
# unintelligible patter
# isn't generally heard
# and if it is,
# it doesn't matter.
########
or
################################
# This particularly rapid,
# unintelligible patter
# isn't generally heard
# and if it is,
# it doesn't matter.
################################
or even
#############################
# This particularly rapid, #
# unintelligible patter #
# isn't generally heard #
# and if it is, #
# it doesn't matter. #
#############################
--tom
