On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Jon Lang<datawea...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd recommend '#='; but if that > isn't already being used by pod, it should be reserved for use by pod > (and it's visually heavy).
Commenting out lines that include pod will generate #= at the beginning of a line, which is tantamount to the problem we're trying to avoid. > What other symbols are reasonably easy to type, are visually > lightweight, and are unlikely to be found at the start of a line and > immediately followed by an open bracket? Hmm... how about '#.'? Too visually lightweight, IMO Almost disappears entirely in this font next to the heavy #, making the third and fourth lines below easily confusable. > #line comment > #.line comment > #(line comment) > #.(inline comment) Besides which, Perl 6 teaches us that $foo() and $foo.() are usually interchangeable. :) I still like the double-bracket idea. I don't much mind the extra character; 5 characters total still beats the 7 of HTML/XML. -- Mark J. Reed <markjr...@gmail.com>
