One technique I sometimes use to comment out a bunch of Perl lines is to put in some temporary POD directives. =Any header..lines...=cut Start the "=" in column 1. Perl figures that the included lines are "Plain Old Documentation" and Perl doesn't compile them. C has a multi-line comment syntax. Perl doesn't, but this is a good substitute.

I also recommend just moving an __END__ statement around in the code.

Everybody here has had some kind of syntax problem that at one time stumped them for awhile. This is a normal part of software development. I would argue to anybody who claims that has never happened: a) you are lying or b) you don't have enough experience.

I think just last week, I had a really bizarre looking error that I traced back to a ":" instead of a ";" at the end of a "use" statement. It didn't take long for me to figure out the problem. But yes, an error 20 lines later can and does happen. I've seen that in every HLL that I've used.

In reply to Re: REALLY PERL ?? by Marshall
in thread REALLY PERL ?? by misterperl

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