On 4/10/06 8:38 PM, Larry Wall wrote:
> Even better is:
>
> =begin UNUSED
> sub foo
> {
> if foo { }
> }
> =end UNUSED
>
> And I don't really care if that's not what people are used to.
> The whole point of Perl 6 is to change How Things Work.
Do you care that it's harder to visually pick out the commented-out portions
of a file at a glance using that syntax? I really don't want to give up
s/^/#/ commenting. Double ##s seem like overkill to me. Then I have to use
triple ### for the "thicker" parts in my little ASCII art comment header
thingies.
###
### Blah blah
###
## Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.
## Ut et magna. Sed feugiat sollicitudin purus. Duis eget sem
## faucibus nibh dapibus sollicitudin. Sed egestas, nisl quis
## pharetra lacinia, libero urna tempus enim, non varius pede
sub foo
{
## bar();
## my $baz = blee();
## $baz--;
return 123;
}
No sir, I don't like it.
-John
