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Glenn Linderman said:
> Regarding obviosity, # end-of-line comments already exist and the
> eyeball has
> become trained to consider them as comments... for many years of shell,
> make,
> hosts file, etc. usage, long before Perl, the eyeball has learned to
> pick out
> # to mean beginning of comment. #< (or the like, any bracket character,
> or,
> with deference to the multitudes of C and Pascal programmers, even the
> "*"
> character, as in "#*...*#") is a simple extension to #, and, by use of a
> bracket character (or *), implies there will be an end.
>
I like this quite a lot. Heck, even a C programmer could like #* ... *# !
I wonder though about backwards compatability. Let me clarify what you
propose with some examples:
code here; #your typical comment here
some code; #*still a single line of comment, but how does parser know?
more code;
code #*inline comment here*# rest of code;
#*
block comment here
*#
code again;
--Michael
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