On Mon 28 Aug, Bart Lateur wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:38:42 -0400 (EDT), Eric Roode wrote:
>
> >People may throw rocks at me for this, but I'd like to suggest that
> >not only is a comment allowed on the terminator line, but a semicolon
> >also be allowed. Vis:
> >
> > print <<EOL;
> > EOL; # This should work, too
>
> Let me throw the first rock. I think this is confusing for the reader of
> your code. This looks like a statement, not an end-of-doc marker, so
> they'll search for the definition of the sub EOL.
I will catch the rock as this is getting ever closer to DWIM.
>
> Next you'll propose that
>
> print <<EOL;
> blah
> EOL; print "OK!\n";
>
> should work too, and print "OK!\n" as well.
>
Yes why not, though it might be bad style.
> OTOH, what about this...
>
> print <<EOL
> blah
> EOL;
>
> which makes this a full blown statement (note the missing semicolon in
> the first line)...
Yes as well.
>
> Nah!
>
I think we are likely to disagree...
Richard
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