On 10/17/07, via RT Bernhard Schmalhofer
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> Currently following PIR is failing because of the '#' in the '.param' list.
>
> .sub main :main
>
> ( $S1 ) = my_sub( 'hello', 'world' )
> say $S1
> .end
>
> .sub my_sub
> .param string str1
> #
> .param string str3
>
> .local string hello
> hello = concat str1, str3
>
> .return( hello )
> .end
>
>
> This surprised me, as I expected that '#' lines would be ignored.
> So I propose to tweak the PIR grammar such that comment lines are allowed
>
it's documented somewhere (perhaps in a very old ticket?) that
*nothing* can appear between a .sub line and the .param lines, so
comments are indeed invalid in the current implementation. i'd love to
see that change, so comments are allowed.
~jerry
