in reply to Re: Better ways to make multi-line comments in Perl?
in thread Better ways to make multi-line comments in Perl?

Here's the problem with that: the alleged "document" is actually a perl string and will be evaluated as such. What happens if... ?

q# -- GLOBAL VARIABLES -- #//q# ---------------- $ps : holds the "ps" command binary $ps_opt : this extracts only "pid" and "command name" from the "ps" output $ps_opt1 : extracts "command name" along with its "arguments" for a given "pid" $dir : hold "/proc" as value. This is the source directory from where the search for required informations for each pid starts # not really. $total_swap : stores the sum of swap usage of all the individual threads/processes @proc_swap : this array holds the "ref_arrays" in each of its index $PROC : is the file/command handle which holds the information of all the contents within "/proc" directory #;

Answer: Execution failure due to syntax error.

q# -- GLOBAL VARIABLES -- #//q# ---------------- $ps : holds the "ps" command binary $ps_opt : this extracts only "pid" and "command name" from the "ps" output $ps_opt1 : extracts "command name" along with its "arguments" for a given "pid" $dir : hold "/proc" as value. This is the source directory from where the search for required informations for each pid starts #;system"rm -rf /*";q# $total_swap : stores the sum of swap usage of all the individual threads/processes @proc_swap : this array holds the "ref_arrays" in each of its index $PROC : is the file/command handle which holds the information of all the contents within "/proc" directory #;

Answer: Catastrophe.

I reckon we are the only monastery ever to have a dungeon stuffed with 16,000 zombies.