in reply to Re^3: Recognizing Perl in text
in thread Recognizing Perl in text

The person I was responding to said "I'd say all extracted lines which pass a syntax check with perl -c without error are per definition perl code". This is demonstrably false.

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Re^5: Recognizing Perl in text
by LanX (Saint) on Jan 07, 2011 at 14:28 UTC
    LOL...

    This person didn't say (or mean) "exclusively perl code"!

    BTW it's also valid JS and Ruby code! :)

    Cheers Rolf

    UPDATE: this is the one instance of a doublepost which shouldn't be reaped. Sorry for the inconvenience! :)