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I'm somewhat enamored of the Smart::Comments module, but have found several shorcomings not mentioned above:

It stops Perl's debugger from performing Run (R) commands for some reason. I have not researched this at all, but have definitely seen that (R) will run your code until the next breakpoint or the next Smart::Comment (sigh).

You can print VARB or LABEL:VARB, but you can't print arbirary strings containing VARBs, such as

                ### $0 starting
                ### $var of $var
                ### $var $var

YOU CANNOT have a colon in your Smart comments - the following would cause compile to fail!
```
                ## this is record $var: all is well
```
In-line SMARTCOMMENTS (meaning those to the right of code) do not seem to work. They only work on loops progress bars.
```
                $var++;  ### $var
                ### Did you get that? No, you didn't.
```

{}think; #Think outside of the brackets

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