On 9/12/07, Saifi Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Sumit Upadhyay wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:29:31 -0000
> > From: Sumit Upadhyay <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <sumit.techie%40gmail.com>>
> > Reply-To: <[email protected] <twincling%40yahoogroups.com>>
> > To: <[email protected] <twincling%40yahoogroups.com>>
> > Subject: [twincling] mutli line comments in Perl
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > How to give multi line comments in perl.
> > /* ....... *\ doesn't work here.
> >
> > # is for one line.
> >
> > For those who don't know here is interesting article.
> > http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/08/13/comment.html
> >
> > thanks
> > Sumit
> >
>
> Ideally, Multi-line comments are required when one needs to explain a
> decision or an algorithm or quote some excerpt (say from a manual).
>
> In reality, the serve to support author names !
>
> The 'POD' approach of PERL with all documentation towards the end
> of the same file, is the best I have seen so far.
>
> Intrestingly enough, C programmer's have multi-line comment facility
> /*
> ...
> */
>
> Still, you will see that C++ style, single line comments are quite popular
> !
>
> In some cases, comments are actually worse than no comment
> since they mislead !
>
> At the end of the day,
> - thoughtful variable and function naming
> - and high quality code is what matters !
>
> thanks
> Saifi.
>
>
Hi,
Perl 6 ( pugs ) has the feature of multi line comments
syntax :
#[ this is
a very long
comment ----> ]
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2007/05/10/everyday-perl-6.html?page=last&x-maxdepth=0
Thank You,
-srini
