Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 15, 2005, at 0:07, Jonathan Worthington wrote: > > What's the fascination with overloading comment syntax? > > Because a compiler can emit it right now w/o any change to Parrot.
That's an advantage for the week it takes to implement the feature. For the remaining age of the universe, however, it's a detriment, because Parrot will silently ignore any syntax errors and programmers will have to be careful to ensure their comments aren't "magic". If it walks like a pragma and quacks like a pragma, it should have the syntax of a pragma. Use a leading dot; you'll thank yourself later. -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Perl and Parrot hacker
