From: "Rob Dixon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(Once again, please bottom-post replies to this group. It maintains
readability
for extended threads. Salutations and signatures should always be edited
out.
You are responsible for the whole of your post, not just your own
material.)
Maybe it improves the readability for the sighted, but well... I am blind
and I usually don't like to parse and read tens of lines until I reach the
few lines I need.
There is not a single accepted way of posting to a group. On the lists that
most of the users are Unix/Linux users, the most easy way is to bottom-post,
and I usually do that, unless I forget that I need to temporary change my
style, but when I want to send a final message and I don't need any answer
for it, I use to top-post.
There are many things that "don't break the program" but are far from good
programming practice. Start by taking out all whitespace, for example.
When we think there is very little chance of our code being read by
someone else
or processed in a way we didn't anticipate, the World will surprise us.
Being
nice to the people who expect our program to be Pod-clean is part of the
Perl
ethos, and should be honoured.
As I said, for commenting more lines of text, perl doesn't have a mark, so I
am not creating a perl documentation. Why should I use a certain style for
creating a comment?
Other users won't see it, because those comments are usually temporary,
sometimes used when I don't want to include a piece of code in the program.
The documentation that John referred you to recommends
=begin comment
:
=end
And is this a valid perldoc mark?
As a last resort you could make a case for not being nice to people and we
will
consider it here.
Please be so kind and explain what do you want to say, because I don't
understand your phrase. English is not my native language.
Do you want to say that I wasn't kind or that I said something badly to
someone?
Octavian
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