Re: multiline comments in cons

[Dominique Dumont]

Timothee Besset <address@hidden> writes:

> Fairly often I want to put multi line comments in my cons files (to comment 
> out big chunks of stuff that where experimental for instance). I suck at 
> perl, but I have a book nethertheless .. and I was hopging I could use 
> something like that:
> 
> <actual cons stuff>
> 
> =
> <commented out stuff>
> =cut
> 
> which seems to be a regular perl syntax for comments? Am I missing something?

Nope. This syntax is used to include doc in the perl program. (See
perpod(1)).

To comment out a chunk of code, you can :
- enclose the code with if (0) { .... }
- use emacs with CPerl chich can comments out chunks of code. Cperl
can even fill paragraph inside the comments
- use any other editor with this functionnality.

HTH

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