in reply to Re: Where and how to start learning Perl
in thread Where and how to start learning Perl

For learning Perl the TMTOWTDI paradigm of Perl applies:
there's more than one way to do it.

#So how come theres only one way to do comments?
hmmm...

webM

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Re: TMTOWTDI
by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Sep 07, 2003 at 04:49 UTC
    webmasta,
    To my knowledge there are quite a few ways to do comments.
  • # comment goes here
  • POD comments documenting your code
  • __END__ comments follow
  • Acme::Comment

    I have even seen some people use here docs for comments, though it really is code. I am sure creative monks have found even more.

    Cheers - L~R

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Re: TMTOWTDI
by NetWallah (Canon) on Sep 07, 2003 at 06:12 UTC 
    use strict;
my $TMTOWTDI = "There IS more than one way to do it";
my $MeaningfulVariableName = "Is another way";

 $MeaningfulVariableName =0, "And if you get creative, even more";
  *SomeOtherWayToSayIt = *MeaningfulVariableName ;
 SomeSubroutine($MeaningfulVariableName , "Extra arg used as a comment
+");

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    I'm sure there are other creative ways to do it - I'm not recommending any of this - it's just that this node invited a challenge.
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