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S02#Whitespace_and_Comments (Score:1)

by daxim (8218)

people who commented things out by putting #s at the absolute beginning of lines might accidentally create embedded comments by placing their # next to a curly brace or a parenthesis or a bracket. [...] I've now learned to put ## at the beginning of lines I want to comment out instead of just #.
Is it too late to spec this in S02 the other way around? Let single # be used for commenting out, no matter what follows. Let ## (perhaps also ### and so on) switch on the special behaviour of brackets etc.
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  by masak (6289) on 2009.07.23 8:18 (#69584) Homepage Journal
  
  I kinda like that way of thinking. And no, it's not too late to spec things differently.
  However, if you want your proposal to be noticed and possibly acted upon, you really should send an email off to perl6-language [perl.org]. That's where language features and spec changes are discussed.
  
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