On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Sumit Upadhyay wrote: > Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:29:31 -0000 > From: Sumit Upadhyay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: [twincling] mutli line comments in Perl > > Hi all, > > How to give multi line comments in perl. > /* ....... *\ doesn't work here. > > # is for one line. > > For those who don't know here is interesting article. > http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/08/13/comment.html > > thanks > Sumit >
Ideally, Multi-line comments are required when one needs to explain a decision or an algorithm or quote some excerpt (say from a manual). In reality, the serve to support author names ! The 'POD' approach of PERL with all documentation towards the end of the same file, is the best I have seen so far. Intrestingly enough, C programmer's have multi-line comment facility /* ... */ Still, you will see that C++ style, single line comments are quite popular ! In some cases, comments are actually worse than no comment since they mislead ! At the end of the day, - thoughtful variable and function naming - and high quality code is what matters ! thanks Saifi.
