Re: Quirky comments

2007-06-21 Thread Smylers
Jonathan Lang writes: > The only other thing that I'll continue to lobby for is that the line > starting with a block comment's termination tag should _not_ be > considered part of the comment, save for the termination tag itself. > Programmers are likely to be surprised when text that follows a >

Re: Quirky comments

2007-06-21 Thread Smylers
Larry Wall writes: > I have a problem with both extremes, and I want to solve it with a > dose of postmodern apathy. It may seem a bit insane, but I think that > in > > print qq:to/END/ > > =for whatever > > END > > I would prefer that the =for is considered Pod by any standard Po

Re: Quirky comments

2007-06-16 Thread Larry Wall
On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 08:45:21PM -0700, Jonathan Lang wrote: : The only other thing that I'll continue to lobby for is that the line : starting with a block comment's termination tag should _not_ be : considered part of the comment, save for the termination tag itself. : Programmers are likely to

Re: Quirky comments

2007-06-16 Thread Jonathan Lang
Larry Wall wrote: I have a problem with both extremes, and I want to solve it with a dose of postmodern apathy. It may seem a bit insane, but I think that in print qq:to/END/ =for whatever END I would prefer that the =for is considered Pod by any standard Pod parser, but is *not*

Re: Quirky comments

2007-06-16 Thread Larry Wall
I have a problem with both extremes, and I want to solve it with a dose of postmodern apathy. It may seem a bit insane, but I think that in print qq:to/END/ =for whatever END I would prefer that the =for is considered Pod by any standard Pod parser, but is *not* considered Pod by t

Quirky comments

2007-06-16 Thread Jonathan Lang
In "[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14421 - doc/trunk/design/syn", Damian Conway wrote: brian wrote: > So, if this is the case, how will a new Perl 6 user debug a program > failure when part of their program mysteriously disappears because > they just happened to have =begin at the beginning of a line? Th