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<node id="561210" title="Re^2: Multi-line comments in perl code?" created="2006-07-14 09:33:26" updated="2006-07-14 05:33:26">
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TheDamian</author>
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&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;
The last item may change with Perl6, for "=begin/end", but the rest will probably not. 
&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; 

Actually, the first point:

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;
POD &lt;b&gt;is&lt;/b&gt; the official way to do multi line comments in Perl
&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; 

will also change in Perl 6, which introduces an indentable, nestable, multi-line-able delimited comment: 

&lt;code&gt;
    #{ comment 
       here 
     }
    #[ comment 
       here 
     ]
    #( comment here )
    #&lt; comment here &gt;
    #« comment etc. »
&lt;/code&gt;

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