Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I also confess to liking // more for till-end-of-line comment marker
> > than #, the hash looks so messy to my eye...of course, // already has
> > a meaning...
>
> I'm the other way around.
>
> This may depend a lot on whether one comes from a shell scripting
> background or from a C++ background. I strongly dislike C++ and other
> than Perl primarily use C and shell, so # is the most natural to me and //
> looks really odd.
>
> Of course, like you said, we really can't use // anyway, as it's valid
> Perl code and actually semi-frequently used.
>
> I do agree that there's a lot to be said for using /* ... */ for multiline
> comments, but then I'm a C programmer.
>
> --
> Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
I agree. The '#' has become a staple of Good Formatting in Perl. For
multiline comments in Perl, how about something like #$ .. $# or #* ..
*#? There is something to be said for the cliche ###### comment blocks
at the top of Perl programs, but maybe a neater alternative should be
considered...
--
Mike Pastore
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
