On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Carl Mäsak <[email protected]> wrote:
> In my post "Three things in Perl 6 that aren't so great" [0], I
> outline three things about Perl 6 that bug me at present. Commenter
> daxim made what seems to me a sensible proposal [1] for solving the
> third problem, "Comments in the beginning of lines":
>
> daxim (]):
> ] Let single # be used for commenting out, no matter what follows.
> ] Let ## (perhaps also ### and so on) switch on the special behaviour
> ] of brackets etc.
>
While I like the idea, ## occurs frequently in much existing code,
a more selective pattern would help.
like "#{" and "#}"
- explicit, DWIM block constructs
or qr/^\s*\#{3,}:[\[\{\(\<]/ etc ..
- multiple-sharps makes the comment-block more visible
- any block-punctuation works (why limit it?)
This would clash far less with existing code,
and thus be usable there incrementally.
And this makes it a more portable, POD++ ish feature.
