comment on

A '#' introduces a comment.

Oh no! You triggered that annoying little bean counter! So here we go ...

A '#' does not ALWAYS introduce a comment:

$#array is the last index of @array
# can be used in place of / in s///, m//, q//, qq//, qx//, qw//, y///, tr///.
$# was a magic variable, deprecated long ago, removed in Perl 5.10.0 (see perlvar)
# inside a comment is ignored like any other character until end of line
And of course, a # in a string constant is just that. It does not start a comment inside a string constant.

Alexander

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In reply to Re^2: Strange compile error? by afoken
in thread Strange compile error? by gelbukh

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