Re: Standard way for displaying a script's output.

[JavaFan]

I just separate code from output with a __END__ token. I don't see much added value in using different colours or fonts. We aren't writing vegetables in green, verbs in boldface either, do we?

[tobyink]

A problem with that is that __DATA__ sections are often used to supply sample input for the script, and those can't really be combined in the same file.

[Xiong]

Except that it's legitimate to store data after any __DATA__; even after __END__ in main.

use strict;
use warnings;
use SelfLoader;
sub daily { sleep int rand };   # work work work
print plimsoll() if shift; 
daily;
__END__
sub plimsoll { "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Plimsoll\n" };

[JavaFan]

Except that it's legitimate to store data after any __DATA__; even after __END__ in main.

So what? Don't forget the audience isn't brainless computers, but humans. I believe that most readers of Perlmonks are smarter than the average houseplant, and don't have trouble spotting the difference between a program that tries to be Miss Smartypants by reading data after an __END__ token, and a program that has its output after an __END__.

[choroba]

Yes, but the point might have been you cannot mix both input and output in this way.