On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 12:48:07AM -0600, David W. Tamkin wrote:
Joe Altman asked about this section for the man page:
| Don't put comments on the regular expression condition lines in a
| recipe, these lines are fed to the internal egrep literally (except
| for continuation backslashes at the end of a line).
Sean Straw and Ken Irving have already explained it: if a condition line is
a regexp, don't put a comment to the right of the regexp because procmail
will take the octothorpe and the text of the comment as part of the regexp
rather than ignoring them as a comment. If it's an exit code test, a comment
to the right doesn't hurt. If it's a size test, well, I really don't know.
I realized late last night what I was probably missing: I am not a
coder. If I understand correctly, 'good' code has comments explaining
the code...usually to the right of the line of code, rather than above
or elsewhere.
Thanks to those who responded.
ja
panix
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