Re: Comments in my code

I just did not put anything in the space after the comments.

I just ocasionally use

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
 ;#
 ;# usage: blah blah
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then I go on to use

# comment without the ;
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simply for my own reasons: I like the way it looks at the beginning separate from the shebang.

-tengo mas que aprender

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Re (tilly) 3: Comments in my code by tilly (Archbishop) on Nov 09, 2001 at 22:12 UTC
What are your reasons? Personally the first one that popped into my head on seeing the style was, "Sounds like someone who has done way too much Lisp." :-)	[reply]
Re: Re (tilly) 3: Comments in my code by petral (Curate) on Nov 10, 2001 at 04:16 UTC
That's one reason. I use `' ;# '` as the pattern for time-stamps which works for lisp, perl and shell, eg: `#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w ;# 14:44 07May01 permute.pl` [download] p	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Comments in my code by inverse (Acolyte) on Nov 10, 2001 at 04:35 UTC
There's nothing really brain damaged about your convention, but it is non-parsimonious. That's a big word for anything not on the straight line between two points. Non-parsimonious things tend to jump out and bother experienced programmers. When you're looking at any code and trying to understand it, you're constantly asking 'What does this do, and why does it do it?'. The truth is that if you stare at anything long enough it will start to look familiar, and that's good. It helps us code. But since your the only one doing it, it's not going to help anyone else. And since it's non-parsimonious it's actually going to bother us.	[reply]