Is that merely an ad hominem attack? Or is his track record so bad that one presumes his stuff will eventually blow up?

This strikes me as pretty strange. Apart from TimToady, merlyn, and a handful of others like audreyt there is none more respected and admired than TheDamian.

Smart::Comments is something I've looked at now and then and frankly your example shows me why I'm glad I never sunk any time into hacking with it. It is completely unclear what the sample does just from looking at it. I can read any Test::More and Log::Log4perl or even Test::Class -- or even Test::Inline for that matter -- code and understand it immediately without consulting the docs. I also personally dislike any formatting constraints to make code work ### Even that.

I'm not coming out against Smart::Comments. If you like, great! Just saying I think it's a perfectly reasonable thing to not choose and it seems a rather roundabout way of replacing other tools which are in wider use and translate across languages, frameworks, and platforms much more transparently.

(update: fixed log4perl link.)

In reply to Re: In Defense of Smart::Comments by Your Mother
in thread In Defense of Smart::Comments by Xiong

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