in reply to Acme::Don't
How many time have you been working on some code and wanted to comment out a section of it to test specific code components?
Often.
Perl will optimize this away, so there's no execution speed involved. Probably the best thing about this is that many color highlighting editors will mark this as a string (which it is), so you can see that it's something not-normal. BEGIN blocks are not BEGIN blocks anymore, they are just part of the never-executed string. It doesn't do any syntax checking (well, you do have to balance your {}'s, or have to choose other delimiters).q{ ...; ...; };
Update (Aug 15 2002):
15:07 <@kane_> juerd: it looks elegant, but wanrs =) 15:07 <@Juerd> kane_: I know, but it's perfect for development code. T +he warning is a good reminder, too 15:08 <@Juerd> I can't believe I didn't say anything about warnings in + that post... 15:12 <@Juerd> kane_: Hmmm... use Acme::Comment qw/start q{ end };/ wo +uld work, wouldn't it? :)
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