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On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 03:17:01PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 01:15:15PM -0700, Brian Hatch wrote:
> ...
> >I think I'll just stick with qq( ... ) -- I love '%' in vi,
> >and that'll mostly do what I need.
> 
> That's why my shell scripts have funny comments #{ and #} on things like
> case and if statements (and python's lack of braces and strange treatment
> of whitespace is why I stick to perl :-).
> 
> Bill

Clever! You've turned the "match braces even within comments" bug
into a feature!


-Tim
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