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in thread Multi-line comments in perl code?

Does this car have a handbrake?

No, but if you keep pressing the footbrake it won't go anywhere.

But isn't there an easier way of stopping it from rolling away on inclines?

Well. If you buy an 18-wheel semi-trailer truck, learn how to drive it with it's 10 gears & hi-lo ratio shifts, and arrange to park it wherever you want to stop in your car; then if you park your car uphill from it, it won't roll very far.


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In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.

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Re^3: Multi-line comments in perl code?
by loris (Hermit) on Jul 14, 2006 at 08:54 UTC

    C-u BrowserUk M-x detect-believer-in-the-one-true-editor No believer-in-the-one-true-editor 'BrowserUk' found (you can run this + command with 'C-g C-r C-o C-w M-n M-e M-w C-d C-i C-g C-i C-t)

    loris


    "It took Loris ten minutes to eat a satsuma . . . twenty minutes to get from one end of his branch to the other . . . and an hour to scratch his bottom. But Slow Loris didn't care. He had a secret . . ."
      (you can run this command with 'C-g C-r C-o C-w M-n M-e M-w C-d C-i C-g C-i C-t)

      g-r-o-w-n   e-w   d-i-g   i-t

      Damn! That's almost a mnemonic...for something?

      Ah! I got it. In order to use the "one true editor" you have

      g-r-o-w   n-e-w   d-i-g-i-t

      At least one. Several is better :)


      Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
      Lingua non convalesco, consenesco et abolesco. -- Rule 1 has a caveat! -- Who broke the cabal?
      "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
      In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.