Hmm. Id be curious to see the other monks thoughts on the below code snippet

    # copy stdin to stdout, except for lines starting with #
    while left_angle_right_angle:
        if dollar_underscore[0] =eq= "#":
            continue_next;
        }
        print dollar_underscore;
    }
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So if i read this correclty a block starts with a : and ends with }

This seems like madness to me. Frankly I think id prefer to write VBS than stuff that looks like the above. The only thing that remotely appeals to mean is the string as an array.

=eq=

hmm, well maybe ahh NOPE.

Yves
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