Re: Mail mode

[Michele Dondi <bik.mido@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 18.48 09/05/03 -0400, John E. Davis wrote:

> I believe there are some languages where the space is necessary.  For
> example, m4 uses "dnl " to denote a comment.

In Perl a space can be necessary *before* the comment char "#", e.g. with 
quote-like operators, and jed's perl mode partly complies with this 
behaviour, but then it is well known that "Only perl can parse Perl"...

BTW, and on an OT basis, I'd greatly welcome an improved perl mode that 
distinguishes between anonymous hashes and blocks of code, but even the 
perl interpreter sometimes has difficulties distinguishing them and must be 
helped so the same comment as above applies! OTOH one generally uses 'fat 
comma' ('=>') to separate key/value pairs in (anonymous) hashes, so a 
first-approximation solution might be devised in terms of this circumstance.


Michele

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