Re: [OT] Re: Thoughts on comments

2007-05-15 Thread Jeff Pang
Dr.Ruud 写道: Jeff, Your messages get treated wrongly too. The end up twice on the perl beginners list, with the same Message-ID, and have a Newsgroups: header field with the groupname twice in it, just like Chas's messages. I don't know what happened.I've changed from my premium Earthlink to

Re: [OT] Re: Thoughts on comments

2007-05-15 Thread Chas Owens
On 5/15/07, Dr.Ruud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jeff, Your messages get treated wrongly too. The end up twice on the perl beginners list, with the same Message-ID, and have a Newsgroups: header field with the groupname twice in it, just like Chas's messages. Right, the problem has to be at la.

[OT] Re: Thoughts on comments

2007-05-15 Thread Dr.Ruud
Jeff, Your messages get treated wrongly too. The end up twice on the perl beginners list, with the same Message-ID, and have a Newsgroups: header field with the groupname twice in it, just like Chas's messages. Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The diff: 7c7 < Received: (qmail 12545 invoked from

Re: Thoughts on comments

2007-05-15 Thread Jeff Pang
Ken Foskey 写道: > > Look to the code itself first, use real names and spell them in full. I > have a production system where prefix is shortened to pfx, pref, prefx. > It is a nightmare to maintain. > I personally agree with this.But for most programmers whose mother language is not english,wrot

Re: Thoughts on comments

2007-05-15 Thread Chas Owens
On 5/15/07, Ken Foskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: snip Look to the code itself first, use real names and spell them in full. I have a production system where prefix is shortened to pfx, pref, prefx. It is a nightmare to maintain. snip The problem here is not the shortening (which can be a good

Re: Thoughts on comments

2007-05-15 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 02:16 -0400, Mathew Snyder wrote: > Is it possible to use too many comments? I'm looking at a script I wrote and > think I may have made it less clear by trying to make it more clear. Absolutely. Commenting in a useful clear way I believe takes years to master. Maintaining

Re: Thoughts on comments

2007-05-14 Thread Chas Owens
On 5/14/07, David Moreno Garza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dr.Ruud wrote: > The / is taken, but there are many other ways to do multiline comments. > For one, see perldoc perlpod. You mean using =begin, =end? They are not exactly multiline *comments*. -- David Moreno Garza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |

Re: Thoughts on comments

2007-05-14 Thread David Moreno Garza
Dr.Ruud wrote: > The / is taken, but there are many other ways to do multiline comments. > For one, see perldoc perlpod. You mean using =begin, =end? They are not exactly multiline *comments*. -- David Moreno Garza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.damog.net/ http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html

Re: Thoughts on comments

2007-05-14 Thread Dr.Ruud
Jeff Pang schreef: > One thing I'm not satisfied with in perl is that why it > does'nt support the multi-lines comments like /*...*/ in C. The / is taken, but there are many other ways to do multiline comments. For one, see perldoc perlpod. -- Affijn, Ruud "Gewoon is een tijger." -- To unsu

Re: Thoughts on comments

2007-05-13 Thread Chas Owens
On 5/14/07, Mathew Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is it possible to use too many comments? I'm looking at a script I wrote and think I may have made it less clear by trying to make it more clear. Yes, it is very easy to have too many comments, especially if you are using them in the wrong w

Re: Thoughts on comments

2007-05-13 Thread Jeff Pang
Mathew Snyder 写道: Is it possible to use too many comments? I'm looking at a script I wrote and think I may have made it less clear by trying to make it more clear. If you look at Spamassassin's codes,you'll find its comments are more than codes.One thing I'm not satisfied with in perl is tha

Thoughts on comments

2007-05-13 Thread Mathew Snyder
Is it possible to use too many comments? I'm looking at a script I wrote and think I may have made it less clear by trying to make it more clear. -- Keep up with me and what I'm up to: http://theillien.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [