multi-line comments, C macros, & Pod abuse

2006-08-18 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
It occurred to me that other day that in our "in house" C code we somewhat frequently use an idiom that's not easily translated into Perl 5. Our rule is that if your commenting out more then 1 or 2 lines of code that you wrap it in a CPP if statement. The logic being that if you haven't deleted t

Re: multi-line comments, C macros, & Pod abuse

2006-08-20 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 02:26:28AM +, Luke Palmer wrote: > On 8/19/06, Aaron Crane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >You don't actually need a macro in that case: > > > >if 0 { q< > >... > >> } > > Which, of course, eliminates the original desire to have a > code-commenting constru

Re: multi-line comments, C macros, & Pod abuse

2006-08-21 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 12:06:36AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 03:55:56PM -0600, Luke Palmer wrote: > > > Why would you care about introducing a new lexical scope? You would > > care about that if you used a variable you declared in the commented > > code in the code b

Re: is static?

2003-03-17 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
> to me static IS a behavior. its value is static from call to call. > >> other overloaded meanings of static from c/c++ are baggage we can drop. I can see the potental for alot of ambiguaty between the meaning of 'is Static' and 'is Constant' (unless your a c/c++ programmer so your mind is al