> "Stuart Cook" schreef:
> > Larry Wall:
>
> >> if 0 {
> >> ...
> >> }
> >
> > The one disadvantage of that approach is that it will break if the
> > "commented-out" code temporarily fails to compile.
>
> How frequent does that happen?
All the time. I often comment out bits of code while I'm refactoring or
such, because I've removed some functions or that the code depends on
s.t. it won't compile any more, I want to compile it to check that the
bits I've done work, and I want the commented-out code visible to remind
me to rewrite it later.
> And in that case s/if 0/\#/, as Luke mentioned.
> And if the compile failure has to do with {}, use other braces.
As you say, alternatives are available.
> But would the following work?
>
> 0 or q:to/END42/
> ...
> END42
Shouldn't it be C<0 and> if you don't want the RHS (or C<1 or>, I
suppose)? In either case, wouldn't this have the side-effect of setting
the last-evaluated value, which might also be undesired.
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