Hi Harry!
On Saturday 27 Mar 2010 18:19:28 Harry Putnam wrote:
> Shlomi Fish <shlo...@iglu.org.il> writes:
> > {{{
> > sort { $a cmp $b } @{ $hash{$nr} }
> > }}}
>
> Shlomi,
>
> Sorry to butt in here... I've been noticing that notation:
>
> {{{
> bla
> }}}
>
> A few times recently in threads here.
>
> I'm not a dedicated reader here; only from time to time, so probably
> missed a thread sometime back explaining what that notation means.
It's my own notation (inspired by E-mail/Usenet conventions or the French
«...») for delimiting blocks, quotes, etc. Similar to HTML's <pre>...</pre> or
<blockquote>...</blockquote>. The meaning is that whatever inside the "{{{" to
"}}}" (or "<<<" to ">>>" or whatever) is different from what's outside it and
should be treated especially.
>
> Also googling it isn't so easy either, something like
>
> perl '{{{'
>
Google ignores most special characters in searches. So I think "{{{" will not
yield you anything relevant.
> Shows many hits, but it's not apparent that any of them are going to
> explain that usage, so would be a long time slogging to find some
> explanation.
>
> Can you explain what that notation means? Hopefully there are other
> readers in the dark too, who may appreciate it.
Hope it helps.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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