Re: [MacPerl] Commenting blocks of code

[Larry Moore <ljmoore@freespace.net>]

At 12:37 -0800 9/03/2000, Brian McNett wrote:
>>
>>Thanks, Mr McN ... so a BBEdit will also pass the control switches on the
>>first line of a window/block to MacPerl? I'm impressed. Much appreciated.
>
>Yes, but see Ronald Kimball's comments.  I was half-asleep when posting
>and got the meaning ot the switches reversed among other things. Not only
>that, I did it TWICE, in two different posts, leading to accusations that
>I hadn't read the POD.

Nope - don't think any of us think that you are not learn'd. We expect that
you caught the error about 10 seconds after the send button was pressed :-)

>BBEdit passes the ENTIRE script as an AppleEvent to MacPerl, and that
>INCLUDES the #! line, so yes, it works.
>

 I just tried #!perl -V and it failed politely. I'll try a few more samples
and see what flies and what dies.

>I pulled an all-nighter last night, mostly because two (or maybe three)
>simultaneous (or nearly so) events.  ... As a result,
>I got very little sleep.  My apologies for the resulting incoherency!
>Normally I really *do* know what I'm talking about.
>

I thought being shoulder-deep in boxes was bad but it sounds like you have
even more distractions than us.

>--B
>
>BTW, there was actually more going on than that, but I'd either have to
>have the list sign an NDA, or go around killing you all after disclosing
>it.

Actually our lawyers and your lawyers would  all be putting downpayments on
another BMW :-)



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