Re: why not just use C /* ... */ ?

[email protected] (Tom Christiansen) Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:11:09 -0600

Newsgroups	perl.perl6.language.mlc
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>Yes, but they are ever so slightly burdensome to use for very large blocks
>of text. 

I've never understood that.

    :/foo/,/bar/s/^/##XXX## /

does it for me.  There are doubtless infinite variations on the same.

--tom