Re: Multi-line comments in perl code?

TIMTOWTDI!

$comment = <<'EOC'
This is a multiline comment.
    You can even indent it!
        Look
    And come back
To the margin.
EOC
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Of course the word comment is used here in its widest sense.

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Re^2: Multi-line comments in perl code? by pKai (Priest) on Jul 13, 2006 at 20:42 UTC
Such an assignment has to end somewhere (semicolon, block end, EOF) to be syntactically correct. For sake of simplicity, assuming it is really just a comment (as opposed to production data), right on the same line, as in `$comment = <<'EOC'; bla bla EOC` [download] And while you are on it you can even give perl a hint that it can forget about that content as soon as possible: `$comment = <<'EOC' if 0;` Of course, whether you should resort to such "comments" is a completely different question.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Multi-line comments in perl code? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 14, 2006 at 19:08 UTC
Your solution is not strict-safe, but that can be fixed with a `my` is not optimized away, doesn't have indentable directives. The following doesn't suffer from those limitations: `0 && q{ ... };` [download] `0 && comment && q{ ... };` [download] `use constant _comment_ => 0; _comment_ && q{ ... };` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]