"That can't "works pretty good" - it's not Perl (// is not a Perl comment)."
The // was a slip of the finger in my editor, I was trying to keep my post uncomplicated, and make it obvious what I was doing in that line.
It wasn't really a prototype, it was just a mistake made from going too fast; the network here was scheduled to go down and I was in a rush.
I didn't use the code tags because I was in a rush and forgot about them, yes, even though the warning against them is on the page.
I apologize for taking up your time, and to anyone else who was put out by my post