Re: Are comments allowed before package declarations in modules?

2008-02-26 Thread ken Foskey
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 12:35 -0500, Jonathan Mast wrote: > I seem to have a vague memory about Perl not allowing comments before > program statements, but I'm not sure. I really want to add a lot of > comments at the top of a rather large module, but I'm unsure if thats safe. The perl best practi

Re: Are comments allowed before package declarations in modules?

2008-02-26 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Jonathan Mast wrote: I seem to have a vague memory about Perl not allowing comments before program statements, but I'm not sure. I really want to add a lot of comments at the top of a rather large module, but I'm unsure if thats safe. It's safe. Comments are simply ignored by the Perl interpre

Re: Are comments allowed before package declarations in modules?

2008-02-26 Thread Paul Lalli
On Feb 26, 12:35 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Mast) wrote: > I seem to have a vague memory about Perl not allowing comments before > program statements, but I'm not sure.  I really want to add a lot of > comments at the top of a rather large module, but I'm unsure if thats safe. what happe

Are comments allowed before package declarations in modules?

2008-02-26 Thread Jonathan Mast
I seem to have a vague memory about Perl not allowing comments before program statements, but I'm not sure. I really want to add a lot of comments at the top of a rather large module, but I'm unsure if thats safe. thanks